In the absence of a compelling case for ditching them, the Government is right to keep the tax cuts.
Tax cuts
Political snippets: Budget winners and losers
The media can’t decide whether tax cuts will or won’t survive the Federal Budget.
Budget countdown: incomes between a tax cut and a hard place
Australia has an unfair, warped and immensely costly approach to incomes policy and the coming budget is the ideal time to start the long process of fixing it.
The ugliest Budget in decades way behind schedule
The Budget process is significantly behind schedule, according to sources in the Canberra bureaucracy, delayed by the continuing collapse in revenue projections and the need to find all possible savings, writes Bernard Keane.
Stimulus needed: Tax cuts get personal
A group of leading economists give their take on whether personal or business tax cuts are the best way to stimulate spending.
Rudd’s stimulus package divides the pack
We’re in the middle of the most perverse economic debate in years, writes Bernard Keane.
Economists tell: How I would trim the tax tree
Crikey asked five leading Australian economist how they would reform Australia’s tax system. Interviews by Thomas Hunter.
Mungo: What a difference a month makes
The smugness of the Howard years came at a price, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
The more readily Murdoched portions of the daily press are gunning hard for the Rudd Government over leaks that put sensitive examples of Howard Government largesse under stern razor gang scrutiny. Take money away from pensioners? Shameful. From carers? Disgusting. Or mealy mouthed as Malcolm Turnbull puts it. The Government should just pledge to renew the late term gifts of […]
