State treasurers are threatening to raise new taxes and blame the Commonwealth unless Chalmers meets their demands for billions in extra cash.
WA Premier Roger Cook doesn’t care if other states are sick of his constant rhetoric around the 2018 GST deal. And he’s happy to let them know it.
Experts are in furious agreement:Australia needs tax reform. So why aren’t the major political parties talking about it?
The OECD has used its first review of Australian policy settings in two years to urge governments to consider more tax on super,an expanding GST and looser zoning laws.
As the battle to retain WA’s share of the GST continues amid a pending review,it’s been revealed the state has employed eight dedicated ‘GST fairness fighters’. Most other jurisdictions have none.
West Australian Premier Mark McGowan is quitting politics because he says he’s exhausted. But exhausted from what,exactly?
WA Premier Mark McGowan has revealed three new Treasury staff will join a team of bureaucrats focused on protecting WA’s GST share ahead of two federal reviews.
It’s no Jedi mind-trick. While the Left and the Right offer binary options for the promised tax cuts,increasing them offers an alternative for real tax reform.
Premier Mark McGowan told a business breakfast that any political party which tried to change the current distribution of GST arrangement would suffer dire consequences in Western Australia.
It was supposed to cost $2.3 billion. But a special deal to help Western Australia is now on track to cost federal taxpayers $30 billion.
Multinationals also face a new minimum tax rate,while gas companies will be slugged an extra $2.4 billion over five years under changes to the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.