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Nanny state taxes: bigger than the carbon tax and mining tax combined
Nanny State taxes raised $13 billion in 2010-11, according to a new study by freemarket think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, Nanny State Taxes on Consumer Products: Soaking the Poor in 2012. This is greater than the combined revenue...
Carbon tax unconstitutional: legal opinion
‘The carbon tax is unconstitutional according to a legal opinion from expert, Bryan Pape, commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs and reported in the Australian Financial Review this morning', said Tim Wilson, Climate Change Policy...
An economists' guide to life
If Ian Harper had been American instead of an Australian, and if he been a professor at the University of Chicago instead of the Melbourne Business School, Economics for Life would have been a hit on The New York Times bestseller list. As it is,...
New poll: Households concerned about energy and food prices
‘Australians are most concerned about electricity costs of all the major household expenses', a new poll commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs found, said Policy Director, Tim Wilson, today. Mr Wilson's comments follow a Galaxy...
Does Australia have a Productivity Growth Problem?
Ever since Paul Krugman stated that productivity was ‘almost everything', policy makers have been obsessed with improving it. This focus has led to a great deal of policy confusion. Productivity is important, but it is not an active policy...
IPA State Business Tax Calculator 2011
IPA State Business Tax Calculator.
IPA State Business Tax Calculator 2011 - Fact Sheets
IPA State Business Tax Calculator 2011 - Fact Sheets
Resources States Steal March on Low Business Taxes
The mineral-rich jurisdictions of the Northern Territory and Western Australia are maintaining a low-tax gap compared to states on the eastern seaboard, in particular New South Wales and Queensland, according to the free market think tank the...