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taxation
National Affairs
Time to talk about tax
Tim Colebatch
14 October 2022
A grown-up conversation about how we fund better services is long overdue
National Affairs
Kidding ourselves about the budget
Tim Colebatch
6 September 2022
One big, vital issue was missing from the Jobs and Skills Summit
National Affairs
Raising the GST to cut income tax is pointless churn
Adam Triggs
9 November 2021
Australia needs holistic tax reform for the post-Covid-19 era
Essays & Reportage
Syd Negus, the forgotten tax-slayer
Peter Browne
14 October 2021
Why is Australia among the few Western countries that don’t tax inheritances?
National Affairs
Good ideas going nowhere
Peter Mares
27 August 2021
Timid governments need shaking up — but the pressure won’t come from the top
National Affairs
Tribal gridlock
John Daley
27 July 2021
A hardening of shibboleths is eating away at good government
National Affairs
Can Crown go down?
Charles Livingstone
22 July 2021
Submissions to the Victorian royal commission add to a powerful case against the once-burgeoning company
National Affairs
How Australia’s Covid-19 debt will look after itself
Adam Triggs
24 May 2021
Concerns that the government’s post-pandenic debt will need to be repaid by future generations don’t stack up
National Affairs
This year’s budget, last year’s spending
Tim Colebatch
21 May 2021
Despite a booming state economy, the Victorian government plans even more stimulus
National Affairs
Kicking the can down the road
Tim Colebatch
12 May 2021
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and his colleagues have avoided hard decisions about how the government taxes and spends
National Affairs
Minding the wrong gap?
Danielle Wood, with Brendan Coates and Tom Crowley
21 April 2021
Does focusing on the gender gap in retirement incomes miss the bigger picture?
National Affairs
Ending a thirty-year race to the bottom
Adam Triggs
12 April 2021
US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen is proposing a global minimum corporate tax rate. Criticisms of her long-overdue plan don’t stack up
National Affairs
The trickle-up effect
Saul Eslake
22 March 2021
Labor is under pressure to wave through tax cuts that will make the tax system less progressive — and don’t stack up economically
National Affairs
If the future is more super, then the future is greater inequality
Mike Steketee
5 February 2021
The superannuation guarantee shouldn’t rise until the system is made fairer
National Affairs
A V-shaped recovery? Don’t bank on it
Adam Triggs
12 October 2020
The assumption that Australia will experience a quick recovery has produced a budget that’s big on spending but low on stimulus
National Affairs
Roadmap to nowhere
Tristan Edis
2 October 2020
By 2030, according to the government’s own figures, Australia will have spent three decades making almost no progress in reducing emissions
National Affairs
If stimulus is the question, the government’s tax cuts aren’t the answer
Adam Triggs
7 September 2020
The proposed tax cuts are a weak form of stimulus that would create more problems than they solve. There are better options
National Affairs
Need growth? Scrap policies that favour rich people and monopolies
Adam Triggs
1 June 2020
Breaking self-perpetuating cycles of rising inequality will be key to Australia’s economic recovery
National Affairs
Matching politics and economics
Adam Triggs
27 April 2020
Post–Covid-19 economic reforms will fail without a national political framework to get them done
National Affairs
The hits and misses of the Coalition’s stimulus package
Adam Triggs
13 March 2020
The government has learned some — but not all — of the lessons of the global financial crisis
National Affairs
Plenty of ideas, not much money
Peter Mares
2 September 2019
The federal government made it clear at the National Housing Conference that significant new spending isn’t likely
National Affairs
Death and taxes
Owain Emslie and Danielle Wood
8 August 2019
Despite the scare campaigns, an inheritance tax makes a lot of economic sense
National Affairs
If we won’t fix negative gearing, then what?
Peter Mares
7 June 2019
Part of Labor’s housing strategy could be adapted to lift affordability, and might just appeal to the government
National Affairs
If franking credits and negative gearing didn’t exist, no one would invent them
Brendan Coates & Danielle Wood
14 May 2019
Election 2019
| Turn the argument around the other way, and the defenders of the status quo are on even shakier ground
National Affairs
Frankly courageous, shadow minister
Peter Brent
12 February 2019
Buoyed by the 2016 election result, Labor has been thinking big — with all the danger that entails
Books & Arts
The real story of Labor’s dividend imputation reforms
Brendan Coates & Danielle Wood
3 February 2019
Grattan Institute researchers show who wins and who loses from Labor’s hotly debated tax policy
Books & Arts
Curiouser and curiouser: the strange world of the global super-rich
Carmela Chivers
9 November 2018
To deal with industrial-scale tax evasion we might need to make our own foray down the rabbit hole
National Affairs
Was this Bill Shorten’s worst week?
Tim Colebatch
27 June 2018
On top of a misconceived ad campaign, the opposition leader left a needless hostage to fortune
National Affairs
Immigration roulette
Abul Rizvi
21 June 2018
Will Peter Dutton’s high-stakes gamble wrong-foot the government on tax cuts?
National Affairs
Four myths about income tax
John Daley
8 June 2018
The debate about the Turnbull government’s income tax cuts is being sidetracked by misconceptions
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