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Victoria 2010-11 state budget a missed opportunity for tax reform
The eleventh Victorian state budget handed down by the Bracks-Brumby governments is a lost opportunity to deliver genuine tax reductions to lock in future economic prosperity, according to free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs....
Henry Review - The Great Canberra Tax Grab
Henry Review - The Great Canberra Tax Grab The Henry Tax Review is a recipe for bigger and higher taxing government according to the free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs. According to Julie Novak, Research Fellow at the IPA, 'A...
Federal/State blame game to continue after Henry Review
Federal/State blame game to continue after Henry Review. Recommendations from the Henry Tax Review for states to abolish some of their own taxes, without giving states the power to raise revenue, are a recipe for the federal/state blame game to...
Henry Tax Review Must Recommend Tax Cuts
Friday, 22nd January 2010 According to Australia's leading free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, Treasury Secretary Ken Henry's review into Australia's taxation system must recommend substantial tax cuts. Henry's speech...
Tax Cuts Instead of Stimulus Spending Gives Average Australian $8,200 Tax Cut
Over the course of the 2008-09 financial year the Australian Government took a series of significant fiscal policy decisions which were designed to act as an economic stimulus. This paper asks the following simple hypothetical question: if those...
States threaten national recovery with profligate spending
New research by the Institute of Public Affairs, Australia's leading free market think tank, shows that growing state budget deficits and debt will impair Australia's capacity to exit the recession quickly.
ETS should be scrapped, not delayed
"While a delay is welcome, the ETS should be scrapped entirely," said John Roskam of the Institute of Public Affairs, a free market think tank. Kevin Rudd announced today that the government's ETS - effectively a tax on energy - is to be postponed...
IPA uncovering State tax imposts
The free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs today released a new report Business Bearing the Burden on state tax liabilities.
Federal Government's ETS Green Paper is a Recipe for Radical Transformation of Economy
If implemented, the measures to curb Australia's carbon emissions foreshadowed in the federal government's Green Paper will bring about a radical transformation of the economy, according to the Institute of Public Affairs, Australia's leading free...