Indexation refusal to trigger $8bn tax slug
Labor’s tax on unrealised capital gains is set to raise more than $8bn a year in a decade as more people are slugged, a Parliamentary Budget Office analysis indicates.
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Tax reform game: GST fix ‘an option worth examining’
Jim Chalmers opened up the tax debate this week promising not to ‘shoot’ down ideas. Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood says a GST shake-up could be one reform.
Death, inheritance taxes off reform agenda: Treasurer
Jim Chalmers says the measures won’t be on the reform agenda at August’s productivity roundtable, which he says won’t be a repeat of the 2022 union-dominated Jobs and Skills Summit.
What the Treasurer will be thinking in his first major FIRB decision
The doubt surrounding Chalmers’ decision to approve or knock back the Santos takeover is creating a $3.6bn discount. Here’s why.
Housing lures, fiscal discipline key
The Albanese government should reward a faster, larger delivery of home building by the states with early payments and a more strategic carve-up of the GST.
Chalmers’ moment of truth on budget, true cost of net zero
Jim Chalmers has declared tax reform is needed to fund growing spending on defence and the care economy while warning that traditional revenue streams will be threatened by the net-zero transition.
Chalmers has lessons to learn
The need for consensus on tax reform is one lesson Jim Chalmers says he has learnt from his days of advising Wayne Swan during Labor’s introduction of a carbon tax.
Builders lobby Treasurer Chalmers for tax incentives
Tax incentives should be given to builders who meet industry standards to help raise competition and investment, drive productivity and reduce the cost of building, says the MBA.
Chalmers admits his budget is not sustainable
Jim Chalmers has vowed to ‘reform from the centre’ to drive productivity growth and fix a budget he admits is not sustainable, as he lays the groundwork for a new economic agenda
Lack of certainty ‘a super dilemma’
Uncertainty around defence spending is preventing investment in Australia’s military industrial base, especially from the $4.2 trillion superannuation industry, says Peter Malinauskas.
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