The government has taken to announcing changes in taxes and benefits long before they take effect. But that day has to come eventually and a host of changes - big and small, good and bad - are set to start tomorrow week, July 1, the first day of the new financial year.
Actually, all the bad changes start on July 1, but some of the good ones have arrived this month.
Even so, July 1 will be the most significant day for tax changes...
Showing posts with label middle-class welfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label middle-class welfare. Show all posts
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tough love or kindness - a taxing dilemma
Something very important is at stake in this year's budget and the opposition's response to it: the shape of Australia's welfare state. Will it continue to be needs-based, or will we progressively make benefits universal - available to everyone regardless of income?
Historically, people on the conservative side of politics have strongly supported means-tested benefits, whereas people on the left have been attracted to the idea...
Monday, September 20, 2010
Don't make taxpayers subsidise status seeking
Sometimes I despair of our politicians. They went through the election campaign carrying on about wasteful spending and the desperately urgent necessity to get the budget back to surplus and eliminate the public debt - all while promising to add to middle-class welfare.
Take the federal government's spending on grants to private schools, under which more than half the schools receive more than they're entitled to under John...
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