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Author Archives: Sinclair Davidson
Peter Costello bells the tax cat
Our political debate is currently dominated by various plans to increase tax. Front and backbenchers in the Liberal Party have proposals to increase GST, the Treasury wants to increase superannuation taxes, the Financial System Inquiry recently suggested franking credits be … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Politics, Taxation
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A clayton’s tax policy
The ALP have just announced the tax policy you have when you don’t have a tax policy. Federal Labor will announce plans on Monday to recoup almost $2 billion by clamping down on multinational tax evasion as it begins pushing … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Politics, Taxation
30 Comments
“… still a thumping loss”.
Mark the Ballot aggregates the polls using several techniques: If an election was held now, it would still be a thumping loss, just not as thumping as early February. Here is the data: Here is one pretty picture (Mark has … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Politics
93 Comments
I would never (again) vote for a Coalition led by Tony Abbott
Okay – so to shake things up a bit. 18C – Abbott broke a profound and fundamental promise to repeal this provision of the RDA. Increased taxes – I’m paying more tax now than I did when Labor was in … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Politics
344 Comments