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Tag Archives: incometax
612 ABC Focus discussion on negative gearing – also featuring shadow treasurer Chris Bowen & Master Builders’ Paul Bidwell
Well done to Emma Griffiths for tackling the challenging topic of negative gearing on her 612 ABC Brisbane Focus program yesterday morning. I participated in an interesting discussion which also featured the deputy head of Master Builders Queensland Paul Bidwell … Continue reading →
Posted in Housing, Uncategorized
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Tagged australia, capitalgains, cis, houseprices, housing, incometax, masterbuilders, negativegearing, policy
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Post-Budget lunch featuring Michael Knox, Morgans’ Chief Economist
Queensland has already received some good news regarding the upcoming 2016-17 Federal Budget, with the announcement two weeks’ ago that our share of GST revenue will be over $500 million higher in 2016-17 than we previously expected (see my post … Continue reading →
Posted in Budget, Uncategorized
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Tagged australia, bracketcreep, budget, federalbudget, gst, incometax, morgans, qld, queensland, super, superannuation, tax
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ABC radio interview on population growth & State income tax proposal
I had an enjoyable chat with Steve Austin on 612 ABC Brisbane radio this morning regarding two topics, Queensland’s underwhelming population growth rate and the State income tax proposal from the Commonwealth Government: Fewer people moving interstate to Queensland The … Continue reading →
Posted in Migration, Population, Uncategorized
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Tagged commonwealth, competitivefederalism, federalism, grants, incometax, interstatemigration, nsw, population, populationgrowth, qld, queensland, states, vfi, victoria, water
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Brisbane ABC radio interview on raising the GST
I had a good chat this morning with Terri Begley on 612 ABC Brisbane regarding proposals to raise more revenue from the GST: What raising the GST actually means I noted that raising the GST and cutting more inefficient taxes … Continue reading →
Townsville ABC radio interview on GST
The GST debate continues, with much attention focused on the regressive nature of the GST. That is, because poorer households typically consume higher fractions of their incomes than richer households, they pay proportionally more of their incomes in GST. Hence … Continue reading →
Posted in Tax
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Tagged gst, incometax, nq, payrolltax, qld, queensland, stampduty, tax, townsville
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Tax mix switch to GST desirable and inevitable
I’m very pleased the Turnbull Government is pushing to raise more money from the GST, as this would allow cuts to more inefficient taxes such as income tax and stamp duty, and would be good for productivity and economic growth. … Continue reading →
Posted in Tax
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Tagged australia, gst, incometax, landtax, oecd, propertytaxes, qld, queensland
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Medicare levy hike would not address major problem of vertical fiscal imbalance
The Daily Telegraph today reports some new modelling on the proposed Medicare levy hike undertaken by my old friend and former Queensland resident Ben Phillips, now Principal Research Fellow at NATSEM: Medicare: Levy hike would cost families $2000 a year … Continue reading →
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Tagged australia, federalism, gst, health, incometax, qld, queensland, tax, vfi
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