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Robert Breunig

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.

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The biggest challenge facing the decades-overdue systemic reform of Australia’s dysfunctional taxation system is removing the obstacles to change.

Those obstacles are the creations of the Labor Party and the Coalition. Both major political groupings have for decades abused, complicated, disabled and undermined our taxation system for political gain.

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Robert Breunig is director of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the Australian National University.

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