The current system for divvying up GST revenue among the states isn’t just unfair – it’s far worse for some of us on the east coast than we’d imagined.

Three years after then treasurer Scott Morrison restructured the system of goods and services tax redistribution to unfairly benefit Western Australia before the 2019 federal election, a Commonwealth Grants Commission report last week confirmed that Victorians next year will receive less back on every dollar spent on GST than most other states.