May
Neil Perry, top chefs combine and take on the old guard
Heavy hitters including Luke Mangan and Merivale have joined a new association to help save the restaurant industry – and challenge a century-old lobby group.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Opinion
- Opinion
Cutting company tax is not the only way to spur investment
Recognising the cost of equity in the tax system is the equitable, effective and productive way to achieve corporate tax reform.
- Robert Breunig and Kristen Sobeck
- Opinion
- Company tax
Husic states the obvious about tax reform
Without a cut to the corporate tax rate, Australia’s ambitions to be a globally competitive and innovative economy will come to naught.
- Innes Willox
Chalmers wrong on Husic’s corporate tax call: experts
Business leaders and tax watchers say overdue changes to corporate rates could be a good place to start a major reform push.
- Tom McIlroy and John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Federal budget
There’s a super-sized hole in the budget. Here’s why
The forecast bounce in the tax take on superannuation will not happen because we’ve massively overdone the concessions that take from poorer and give to richer Australians.
- Chris Richardson
‘Super-sized hole’ in budget as Treasury revises tax take
Treasury has cut $11 billion from its four-year estimates of revenue from superannuation taxes, as “overly large tax concessions” keep benefiting the richest retirees.
- Hannah Wootton
Tax reform needed to break Australia’s economic inertia: think tank
The Blueprint Institute says the Australian economy is in a state of inertia and needs ambitious tax reform, calling for more focus on consumption, land and resources.
- Tom McIlroy
- Exclusive
- WA budget
WA to raise iron ore projections in budget
The WA government will increase its long-term price assumptions for iron ore at this week’s state budget.
- Tom Rabe
April
Tax changes ‘turning investors off Australia’
Business groups react to new tax laws like they do to a horror movie, “with one eye closed and hands covering your face”.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Opinion
Negative gearing is not a rort or a tax concession
Negative gearing is said to single-handedly be responsible for Australia’s housing crisis. But it is a principled, fair and efficient feature of any tax system.
- Steven Hamilton
Limiting negative gearing to new builds would raise $16b in a decade
Jacqui Lambie and David Pocock will push for curb tax concessions for investment properties, in a plan that could raise as much as $6 billion for new supply.
- Tom McIlroy
Labor will tax super savers twice under proposed ‘wealth tax’: Taylor
Double taxation was “a natural consequence” of Labor’s plan to tax unrealised gains under its proposed tax increase on super balances over $3 million, the shadow treasurer said.
- Hannah Wootton
Savers with $3m-plus super could pay double tax on earnings
Labor’s plan to increase the tax paid on earnings for super accounts with more than $3 million could sting savers twice, experts have suggested.
- Updated
- Hannah Wootton
Taxing judges’ pensions bad for independence, women
A former Federal Court chief justice says the reforms were likely unconstitutional and would stymie efforts to improve the number of women on the bench.
- Hannah Wootton
Super tax changes to ‘cut off lifeblood’ of local business
Funds management veteran Geoff Wilson says Labor’s controversial plan to tax unrealised gains on big superannuation accounts will discourage investment in local firms.
- Hannah Wootton
- Exclusive
- Jim Chalmers
Former Labor minister calls for major tax shake-up
The nation “relies too much on personal income tax and corporate income tax” and “there are limits to the sustainability of that”, the OECD’s tax official and former Labor minister David Bradbury says.
- John Kehoe and Tom McIlroy
Tax changes may make super the best place to stash cash
New analysis shows the changes will have the perverse effect of entrenching tax benefits for some of the country’s wealthiest, spurring calls for widespread tax reform.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Jim Chalmers
We need a tough treasurer to talk us through tax reform
What really matters for future living standards is government policy going above and beyond mediocre minor changes.
- John Kehoe
States back demands for tax reform review
State and territories have swung their weight behind a Ken Henry-led push to review and overhaul a “mess” of state and federal spending responsibilities
- Samantha Hutchinson, Tom McIlroy, Tom Rabe and Simon Evans
- Opinion
- Opinion
Tax reform fail threatening the social compact of a nation
A new tax review will have to look at what this generation can do for the Australians of the future.
- Ken Henry
