Treasury
IMF alarm at house prices
DAVID URENThe IMF has also criticised Scott Morrison’s May budget, saying it is trying to narrow the deficit too rapidly.
Facebook used to catch tax cheats
ANDREW WHITESocial media posts, private school records and immigration data are being used by the ATO to catch tax cheats.
Shorten ‘a liar’ on super, tax
DAVID CROWEScott Morrison has labelled Bill Shorten a ‘serial liar’ on controversial reforms.
Morrison demands super hike
DAVID CROWEScott Morrison is seeking rapid approval for a $3bn tax hike on superannuation by the end of this year.
Impasse threatens work holidays
RACHEL BAXENDALEBackpackers will pay 32.5 per cent tax from January 1 if the Turnbull government cannot solve a Senate impasse.
Era ‘threatens living standards’
DAVID URENThe Productivity Commission has damned the reform efforts of the past 12 years as the ‘nothing era’.
BCA aims to lead on tax fairness
ANNABEL HEPWORTH, DAMON KITNEYThe BCA has issued a rallying call to its members to publicly back a campaign for more tax transparency.
Forecast deficit blows out $30bn
DAVID URENThe failure of tax revenue to meet optimistic predictions has forced the forecast peak in public debt $30bn higher.
Weaker state leads slowdown
DAVID URENThe domestic economy appears to be softening, with particular concerns about the strength of the key NSW economy.
Push to stop welfare creep
DAVID CROWEScott Morrison has vowed to end the “welfare creep” that encourages thousands of Australians to avoid getting a job.
‘Kicking the poor old pensioner’
JARED OWENSBill Shorten accuses the Coalition of demonising pensioners to distract from their difficulties over welfare.
More land won’t fix home crisis
DAVID CROWEFederal policy will give incentive funding to states that provide people places to live.
Costello wants dead to pay share
RACHEL BAXENDALETim Costello has called for an inheritance tax, arguing the best time to pay tax is when you’re dead.
Welfare pays more than work
SARAH MARTINThousands of parents claiming government benefits are financially better off not getting a job, new figures show.
Stop ‘megaphone lecture’ on PPL
JARED OWENSNick Xenophon warns the Treasurer, who is inching towards a deal to stop parental leave “double-dippers’’.
Xenophon tax cut plan ‘wrong’
MEREDITH BOOTHNick Xenophon has got it wrong on capping a tax cut to $10m turnover companies, says exporter Con Manias.
‘Reform states must get more GST’
MARK COULTANThe system of distributing GST revenue should be changed to reward states that make economic reforms, a NSW minister says.
’Payments for more housing’
MARK COULTAN, RICK WALLACEScott Morrison has hinted that the states could be given incentive payments to increase the supply of housing.
