Category: Tax Reform

When the Howard government prepared to introduce the goods and services tax (GST) in 2000, the most far-reaching tax reform since WWII, I used the Freedom of Information law to identify the real impact of this new regressive tax. The Government had assumed that every individual and household had the same spending pattern, whereas this…

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