Archive for 'Joe Hockey'
Farewell Joe hockey
Posted by John, October 22nd, 2015 - under Joe Hockey.
Comments: none
I was going to write about Joe Hockey leaving Parliament but I don’t won’t to speak ill of the brain dead.
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Tax cuts for the rich? Seriously Treasurer?
Posted by John, August 25th, 2015 - under Joe Hockey, Tax cuts, Tax reform, Tax the rich.
Tags: Abbott government
Comments: 3
Australia is a low tax, low spending country. It’s time we started taxing the rich and the big business tax avoiders more, not less.
Hockey’s budget hurts the poor
Posted by John, July 2nd, 2015 - under Joe Hockey, Solidarity magazine.
Tags: Abbott government, Budget, Budget cuts
Comments: none
James Supple writes in Solidarity magazine that the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling at the University of Canberra (NATSEM) released modelling that did the sums [on Hockey’s 2015 Budget]. As Ben Phillips from NATSEM explained, “the overall picture is one where low income families do the heavy lifting.
Public housing anyone?
Posted by John, June 9th, 2015 - under Joe Hockey, Public housing.
Tags: Housing
Comments: 2
Instead of Joe Hockey fantasising about the rest of us getting well paid jobs (which is just code for ‘only the rich can afford to live here’) tax the rich and big business to build affordable public housing for the people.
The Australian Treasurer rang me today about tax reform
Posted by John, April 1st, 2015 - under Joe Hockey, Tax reform, Tax the rich.
Comments: 6
‘Nothing is off the agenda and your exciting ideas about taxing the rich should be part of the national conversation,’ Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey told me.
Joe Hockey really truly will crack down on tax avoidance, and pigs might fly
Posted by John, February 16th, 2015 - under Joe Hockey, Tax, Tax advisers, Tax avoidance.
Comments: 1
The next time the Treasurer tells you he has to cut pensions, aboriginal services, women’s refuges, health or education funding, ask him why he doesn’t shut down the section 25-90 rort and use the $600 million a year on something socially useful. What about it Mr Hockey? This of course is the same Mr Hockey happy to see Chris Jordan, the former NSW manager of major tax avoidance ‘planning’ firm, KPMG, and current Commissioner of Taxation, destroy the Australian Tax Office and its already meagre capacity to police the rich and powerful tax avoiders and evaders. Regulatory capture is the word I think we are searching for here, Mr Hockey.
Joe Hockey is the best friend big business tax avoiders have
Posted by John, December 17th, 2014 - under Joe Hockey, Tax, Tax avoidance, Tax Office, Tax policy.
Comments: 5
When announcing that the Abbott government wouldn’t go ahead with the repeal of section 25-90, Hockey said they would introduce more targeted changes to address the issue. They abandoned even this pretence in Monday’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook. Evidently it would be impractical to go ahead with any changes. Impractical for whom Mr Hockey? Your rich and powerful tax avoiding mates.
I have a simple question for the Treasurer. Why don’t you tell us what the ATO thinks about section 25-90?
Joe Hockey is the best friend the big business tax avoiders have.
Treasurer, we need to talk about section 25-90 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
Posted by John, October 10th, 2014 - under Joe Hockey, Tax, Tax avoidance.
Comments: 5
Far better from Hockey’s point of view that we pay $7 to doctors than that his mates pay even $7 in tax.
All those ‘rich people’ stuck in traffic on their way to work
Posted by John, August 15th, 2014 - under Joe Hockey, Neoliberalism.
Tags: Car travel, Fuel excise
Comments: 1
A great meme which captures what is so wrong with this Abbott/Hockey Government, a more vicious but less successful version of neoliberalism than Labor when in government.
Joe Hockey gets it cars about
Posted by John, August 13th, 2014 - under Joe Hockey, Poverty, Unemployed, unemployment.
Tags: Car travel, Fuel excise
Comments: 16
Let’s be fair. Hockey is partly right. With his government increasing unemployment – it jumped from 6% to 6.4% last month – and denying those under 30 the dole for 6 months, young unemployed people won’t be able to buy food let alone drive anywhere.