Business

Peter Martin

Peter Martin is the Economics Editor for The Age.

Seniors are doing better in real terms than younger people earning the same incomes.

End the age of entitlement - for seniors

Australia's tax system has become skewed towards a growing and apparently untouchable group of 'taxed nots' - they are older Australians who pay roughly $1 billion per year less tax than younger Australians in the same circumstances, according to a new Grattan Institute report.