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Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he wants tax proposals that either leave the budget no worse off or lift overall revenue.

If you want tax cuts, find ways to raise more revenue: Chalmers

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned those who want tax cuts that they have to find ways to improve the budget bottom line to fund them – but a GST change is unlikely to be one of the measures.

  • Shane Wright

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While businesses hope to win a cut in the corporate tax rate at the government’s economic roundtable, many firms just want the tax system simplified.

Want a slice of GST with your tiramisu? Businesses press for simpler tax

While big businesses are pressing the federal government for lower taxes, they also want an answer – do I pay GST on my chocolate-flavoured yoghurt?

  • Shane Wright
A full monthly inflation report is on track for year’s end, helping the Reserve Bank to set interest rates.

There’s a change coming to the number that guides the Reserve Bank on interest rates

Inflation guides what the Reserve Bank does on interest rates. It is now close to finally getting a full monthly insight into the nation’s price pressures.

  • Shane Wright
Treasurer Jim Chalmers during Tuesday’s press conference.

Chalmers rules out using PBS as bargaining chip in face of Trump’s pharma tariffs

The US president says he plans to implement a 50 per cent duty on US copper imports and a 200 per cent tariff on pharmaceuticals.

  • Olivia Ireland and Simon Johanson
Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock after the RBA board decided to keep rates on hold.

Split Reserve Bank shocks economists, banks and households by holding rates steady

For the first time in its history, the RBA board has openly split over the direction of interest rates.

  • Shane Wright
Michele Bullock … looking for certainty in an uncertain world.

The number the RBA needs to cut your mortgage payments

Dodgy inflation numbers. Strength in the jobs market. Donald Trump. Take your pick as to what delayed a likely interest rate cut.

  • Shane Wright
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Sydney’s preliminary clearance rate picked up to 67.5 per cent in the week to Saturday from 59.5 per cent a week earlier.

How Canberra’s most popular book might influence my hunt for a first home

Can two American journalists help me buy my first home? Probably not. But they’ve got an abundantly good idea.

  • Millie Muroi

Albanese is the conservative who mugged the Liberals. Let’s hope he seizes the moment

Labor’s landslide success has opened up an opportunity for the government to advocate and implement more substantial and transformative policies than it might otherwise have been prepared to produce.

  • Shaun Carney
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, ACTU secretary Sally McManus.

Unions say index super tax hit to protect ordinary workers

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is under pressure from the union movement to overhaul his proposed hit on wealthy superannuation account holders.

  • Shane Wright
Treasurer Jim Chalmers admits the progressive side of politics is getting in its own way, strangling its ideas.

Australia’s lawsuit over rare minerals is a geopolitical litmus test

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is trying to protect access to resources that are critical for our military technologies and the transition to clean energy.

  • John Coyne and Justin Bassi

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