May
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Cutting company tax is not the only way to spur investment
Recognising the cost of equity in the tax system is the equitable, effective and productive way to achieve corporate tax reform.
February
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Both sides of politics must commit to tax reform
The experts agree on what is needed for a rational tax system. The job of the politicians is to put self-interest aside and sell it to the public.
August 2023
- Opinion
- Tax minimisation
Level the tax-raising playing field
The government’s crackdown passes the pub test. But the revenue lost through the most egregious tax avoidance schemes is dwarfed by the amounts whisked away through perfectly legal means.
June 2023
- Opinion
- Australian economy
How to turn stamp duty into a land tax overnight
There is a way that Australia’s most inefficient tax could be phased out without states losing a lot of revenue upfront.
March 2023
- Opinion
- Superannuation
Stop super tinkering, start asking how to tax all savings fairly
The deceptively simply solution is a flat, low-rate tax and small concession for superannuation contributions.
October 2022
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Let the states specialise in services and leave tax to the feds
The Queensland land tax debacle adds to the strong body of evidence for handing all revenue-raising responsibility to the Commonwealth.
February 2022
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Everyone is in a tax reform huddle, except the politicians
Politicians know the tax system urgently needs reform. But where is the leader who will stand up and say so?
June 2021
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Death duties would level up generational tax-wealth inequalities
An inheritance duty set at a similar rate as the GST would stop young people being treated as peasants and the old and rich as the nobility by the taxation system.
November 2020
- Opinion
- Tax reform
NSW's brave stamp duty switch should be even bolder
Instead of a slow opt-in transition, moving all property owners onto a land tax system in one fell blow would be a fairer and simpler reform.
June 2020
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
How Denmark broke the mould on industrial relations
Denmark's 'flexicurity' creates 21st-century workplaces that combine free market efficiency with equity.
April 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Let's finally reform the tax system
Put this crisis to use to fix a taxation regime we know is unfair, complex and inefficient.