Modeller lauded by Coalition opposed negative gearing

Negative gearing encourages excessive use of debt, lifts overseas borrowings and raises real ...

Economy picks up as income dives, budget weakens

Australians shrugged off sliding national income and meagre pay rises to dip into their savings at ...

ASSET CHECK

Labor plan encourages higher gearing

If the tax-exempt proportion of capital gains is cut to 25 per cent, it will change the original ...

Turnbull walks away from tax reform

The Turnbull government has all but abandoned tax reform, ruling out most of the options presented ...

Terrified on tax: why Turnbull will squib it

So much for big reforms. Don’t expect Malcolm Turnbull to present a bold tax plan. He’s too scared ...

Bracket creep is code for cutting high-end taxes

Many of us would welcome bracket creep if it meant actually getting a pay rise.

NOEL GALLAGHER

Bracket creep is 'no big deal'

Tax reform is in the spotlight.

There's more than one way to kill negative gearing

The big problem is the capital gains tax concession.

ASSET CHECK

Capital gain changes are more taxing than negative gearing

The ongoing tax reform debate has created new difficulties for making medium and long term ...

Negative gearing losses biggest in ACT and WA

The Australian Capital Territory is the nation's biggest loser according to a new analysis of tax ...

Morrison's tax change: From the poor to the rich

The most shocking thing in the treasury analysis delivered to Scott Morrison on January 25 isn't ...

Beware, the states are about to hike up taxes

Now that a GST rise is off the table, expect state governments to do the tax reform that the ...

$440,000 to model tax, but the results shouldn't be taken literally

The government is paying private consultants $440,000 to model the effects of tax changes in an ...

Morrison: No GST hike this time

Treasurer Scott Morrison has conceded that an increase in the GST is extremely unlikely, saying it ...

What tax debate?

Of all the questionable claims in the tax debate, the biggest it's that it's been a debate.

Why PM killed the white paper and probably a higher GST

The tax white paper is dead. So too (most probably) is an increase in the GST.

CAR FINANCE

Car packaging still worthwhile

Leasing a car through work is still worthwhile. The tax advantage is not as great as it used to be, ...

GST hike is a solution in search of a problem

We need a clear goal if the attempt to change the tax system is to succeed.

Tax on luxury family homes rejected

A government frontbencher has all but killed a proposal to apply capital gains tax to the sale of ...

Off the table: why the GST won't be lifted to 15 per cent

So out of favour is the idea of increasing the GST that by the time the government releases its tax ...

YOUR QUESTIONS

Capital gains tax may apply when you split units

We live in combined flats as our permanent place of residence and neither one has ever been rented. ...

ASSET CHECK

Push your savings up a gear

Given the ongoing uncertainty about the future tax treatment of superannuation, investing in the ...

Be afraid, they are coming for your super

 Forget the GST – it's tackling the burgeoning problem of superannuation that will show whether the ...

ASSET CHECK

Super proposals would make tax system less fair

If superannuation is made less attractive, it would encourage the well off to over-invest in the ...

ASSET CHECK

Savers under attack

People relying on their past savings for their retirement income face being big losers in any ...