When we should be debating either broadening or raising the GST, we are instead discussing whether taxpayers should continue subsidising Australia’s richest state.
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To critics, it’s one of the worst public policy decisions of this century. But to advocates, it’s a simple tweak that addresses a gross inequity.
The West Australian GST deal will cost taxpayers another $5.2 billion next financial year, as the federal government tips in ever more money to paper over the permanent damage done by the Turnbull government to Commonwealth-state financial relations.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/the-real-travesty-of-the-wa-gst-deal-20240313-p5fc1z
