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Australian Tax Policy Analysis [R package grattan version 1.7.1.2]
Utilities for costing and evaluating Australian tax policy, including high-performance tax and transfer calculators, a fast method of projecting tax collections, and an interface to common indices from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Written to support Grattan Institute's Australian Perspectives program. For access to the 'taxstats' package, please run install.packages("taxstats", repos = "https://hughparsonage.github.io/tax-drat/", type = "source").
Are the proposed personal income tax cuts affordable and fair?
Submitted to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Treasury Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Plan) Bill 2018, Monday 4 June The Turnbull Government’s proposed personal income tax cuts are the largest ever proposed in a federal budget.
The superannuation myth: Why it's a mistake to increase contributions to 12pc of earnings
So much of the national conversation about superannuation simply assumes that "savings for retirement" is synonymous with "superannuation savings". This is a big mistake. This mistake partly explains why we got into such a mess with excessively generous tax breaks for super. It also underlies misguided plans to increase superannuation contributions to 12 per cent of earnings. Any sensible conversation about superannuation policy must start by recognising how households save for retirement, and why.
Young Australians will wear the cost of Turnbull's middle-income tax cuts
Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull has promised tax cuts for middle-income earners in the next budget or even earlier. The short-term political benefits of pre-election tax cuts are not in doubt. But unless the Government is willing to increase taxes elsewhere to pay for these sweeteners, there will be longer-term costs for the budget and the economy. And younger Australians will wear these costs.
Young Australians will wear the costs of Turnbull's middle income tax cut
Malcom Turnbull has promised tax cuts for middle-income earners in the next budget or even earlier. The short-term political benefits of pre-election tax cuts are not in doubt. But unless the government is willing to increase taxes elsewhere to pay for these sweeteners, there will be longer-term costs for the budget and the economy. And younger Australians will wear these costs.
why it's a mistake to increase contributions to 12% of earnings
So much of the national conversation about superannuation simply assumes that “savings for retirement” is synonymous with “superannuation savings”. This is a big mistake. This mistake partly explains why we got into such a mess with excessively generous tax breaks for super. It also underlies misguided plans to increase superannuation contributions to 12% of earnings.
Why the budget income tax cuts look fair - in the longer run
Fairness, and which party is more committed to it, will be a big theme in the federal election. There has already been lots of argument about whether the May budget was fair, particularly in its changes to personal income tax. But as is so often the case, “fairness” depends on your perspective. Treasurer Scott Morrison announced just one change to personal income tax in the Budget. From July, the $80,000 tax bracket will rise to $87,000.
What would make a GST increase 'fair'?
Amidst the backdrop of a looming funding gap for hospitals and schools, NSW Premier Mike Baird and South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill are taking proposals to increase the GST to 15% to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) this Friday. While raising or broadening the GST is acknowledged as one of the least economically damaging ways to boost revenue collections, the regressive impact of a higher or broader GST has been a crucial sticking point.
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