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Renewable energy comes at exorbitant price
Coal-powered electricity generators and abundant coal supplies bring Victoria the world's cheapest electricity. This will change, partly because of...
Resource rent tax is absurd as its predecessor
The resource super-profits tax is buried, the minerals resource rent tax is terminally sick. Treasury's estimate that the MRRT would reduce the...
Tax grab was not reform
According to Yes Minister, there are two sorts of decisions that governments make. "Controversial" decisions cost votes. And then there are those...
Resource tax blundering has the government digging itself into a deeper hole
Since the Henry review was released, Australians have seen a new tax go from recommendation, to revenue inclusion in budget forecasts, to being...
Revenue grab creates little revenue
The Resources Super Profits Tax (RSPT) comprised two aspects. One was its naked theft of decades of shareholder investment. The other was a tax...
A good time to cut the strings
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the GST, however there does not seem to be any congratulatory messages from the states. It may be a...
Taxing questions: 10 years of GST
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). The idea had been around Australia for 25 years before...