Archive for 'Income tax'
Income tax – back to 1915 with Malcolm Turnbull
Posted by John, March 30th, 2016 - under Income tax, Tax, Tax the rich.
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Australia first had Commonwealth and State income taxes in 1915. It is a special type of conservative leader who can propose taking us back a century and claim it is a visionary policy, something for the future. It is nothing of the sort. We workers shouldn’t fall for this pea and thimble trick of higher taxes or underfunded school and hospital systems. There is an alternative – tax those many big businesses avoiding tax and tax the rich. Maybe the $24 billion Turnbull is going to spend on planes that don’t work and the god knows how many billions he is going to spend on submarines could instead better fund public schools and hospitals.
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Decentralising income tax to the States and Territories – forthcoming interview
Posted by John, March 30th, 2016 - under Income tax.
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Philip Clark, presenter on Canberra and region ABC Radio, 666, will interview me on Friday morning at 7.15 am about the Turnbull government’s proposal to give the States and Territories the ability to impose income tax or set rates. The details of the proposal are not yet clear.
Some Basic Marxist Concepts to Help Understand Income Tax
Posted by John, September 25th, 2015 - under Income tax, Journal Jurisprudence, Marx.
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Mark Konza, Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, told the Australian Financial Review Tax Reform Summit that ‘in 40 years of tax work he had not heard references to Marx…’ (Neil Chenoweth, ‘Equity sore point in foreign investment’ AFR Wednesday 23 September page 4.) Well Mark, you are in luck. My article, Some Basic Marxist Concepts to […]
Solar panel payments and income tax
Posted by John, December 27th, 2014 - under Income tax, Solar panels, Tax.
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My latest missive to the Canberra Times, prompted by a page one article about solar panels. Given I have a success rate of 0% these days with the Canberra Times letters, I expect this too to go into their rubbish bin of history. _______________________ The article ‘Solar take-up through the roof’ (Kirsten Lawson, The Canberra […]
Solar panels and inequity
Posted by John, January 17th, 2010 - under Income tax, Solar panels.
Tags: Australian Tax Office, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Carbon tax, Climate change, Equity
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Subsidies for individual solar panel electricity generation are a dumb idea. High feed in tariffs actually impose a burden on poor and working class electricity users and benefit those well enough off to pay $23,000 or thereabouts for solar panels on their roofs. In addition the Rudd Labor Government’s former rebate scheme reimbursed the solar panel owners up to $8000 […]
Will tax gobble up the solar feed-in tariff? (Part 1)
Posted by John, August 31st, 2009 - under Income tax, Photovoltaic cells, PVCs, Solar energy.
Tags: capital gains tax, Constitution, Excise, Feed-in-tariff
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Is the payment to householders for solar electricity from photovoltaic cells on their roofs taxable?