Tax reform


Costello: I can teach you a thing or two about tax reform

Peter Costello modestly lectures the Federal Government on what it can learn from his own tax reforms. “On no account should there be a tax on the family home,” he warns, lest we end up mimicking America’s subprime crash.

Fake contractors gouging our tax base: unions

Australia is facing an ongoing drain on tax revenue as a result of the failure of the Howard Government’s attempts to prevent “bogus contracting” from undermining the tax base.

A hard, tough and brutal tax debate is brewing

Tax reform shouldn’t be easy. Yet it is not clear that any reform will actually flow from the Henry Review, writes Sinclair Davidson.

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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.