Archive for 'Minerals Resource Rent Tax'
My submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics on the MRRT
Posted by John, April 4th, 2013 - under MRRT, Minerals Resource Rent Tax, Senate Standing Committee on Economics.
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This is a link to my submission – The Minerals Resource Rent Tax: the death rattle of social democracy in Australia? – to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics and its investigation into the Development and Operation of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax.
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The Greens and Labor: Is this war baby or is it just confusion?
Posted by John, February 24th, 2013 - under Fighting back, Minerals Resource Rent Tax, Refugees, Resistance, Single parent payment, The Greens.
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The Greens’ push for reforms imagines that in a time of global economic crisis, a crisis of low profit rates arising out of the way production is organised under capitalism, capital will willingly divert some of the surplus value we workers create back to us or the poor. That is fairy land stuff.
The Minerals Resource Rent Tax and other lies
Posted by John, February 8th, 2013 - under Minerals Resource Rent Tax, Mining, Mining companies, Mining taxes, Resource Super Profits tax, Resource rent taxes, Super profits.
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The money is there. So why not start all over again? I have a suggestion. How about a 40% super profits tax applying to all resources? Oh…The ghost of Kevin Rudd ensures that won’t happen.
And while we are at it, why not a super profits tax on all super profits, not just those in the resource sector. The Big 4 banks come to mind.
Advice fuels MRRT doubts
Posted by John, January 17th, 2013 - under Minerals Resource Rent Tax, Tax, Tax Office, Tax policy, Tax secrecy.
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I am quoted in today’s Australian. Among other things: ‘Former senior tax official John Passant concluded yesterday that the government’s need to suppress the quarterly revenue figure indicated that nothing was being collected.’ Find out why. Here is the link to the article ‘Advice fuels MRRT doubts’ by David Crowe.
Lessons from the recent resource rent tax experience in Australia
Posted by John, June 13th, 2012 - under Canberra Law Review, Minerals Resource Rent Tax, Resource Super Profits tax, Resource rent taxes, Tax.
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Yours truly in the Canberra Law Review last year. Since posting the link it has been put behind a password. WTF is that about? So here is a link to the whole edition. My article starts at page 159. http://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/busgovlaw/attachments/pdf/CLR-2011-Vol.-10-2-Symposium-edition.pdf
Superannuation and the Minerals Resource Rent Tax
Posted by John, November 24th, 2011 - under Minerals Resource Rent Tax, Superannuation, The Conversation.
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This is my article in Thursday’s The Conversation on the Minerals Resource Rent Tax and superannuation. http://theconversation.edu.au/weve-gained-a-mining-tax-but-lost-a-rare-opportunity-4442
BHP’s $22 billion profit – please don’t tax them Mr Swan
Posted by John, August 24th, 2011 - under BHP, Minerals Resource Rent Tax, Resource Super Profits tax, Resource rent taxes.
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Maybe it is time to squeeze the mining companies until their pips squeak.
Some praise
Posted by John, June 3rd, 2011 - under Minerals Resource Rent Tax, Resource Super Profits tax.
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A comment from an attendee at today’s Justice Connections conference, which I could not attend but to which I had submitted a paper. ‘Justice Kirby commended your article on the failed Mineral Resource Rent Tax/Super Profits Tax, so congratulations.’
Resource rents and company tax rates: tax big business
Posted by John, March 29th, 2011 - under Minerals Resource Rent Tax, Resource Super Profits tax, Tax, Tax avoidance, Tax cuts.
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Almost half of all big business pays no income tax and those that do mostly pay much less than the notional 30 percent headline rate. Tax business and the rich.
Will the big miners dump Gillard too?
Posted by John, October 21st, 2010 - under Julia Gillard, Minerals Resource Rent Tax, Mining, Mining companies, Mining taxes, Nationalisation, Resource Super Profits tax.
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Nationalise the mines under workers’ control.