Archive for 'Tax'
Abolish the GST and tax the rich instead
Posted by John, May 19th, 2013 - under GST, Goods and Services Tax, Tax, Tax policy, Tax reform, Tax the rich.
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Enough of the charades Labor and the Liberals are playing over tax. Abolish the Goods and Services Tax and soak the rich till their pips squeak.
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Labor’s super back down: a party rotten to the core
Posted by John, April 19th, 2013 - under Labor Party, Superannuation, Tax, The Conversation.
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Me on superannuation and the death rattle of the ALP in The Conversation.
Tax: some recent unpublished Financial Review letters
Posted by John, April 3rd, 2013 - under Mining taxes, Super profits, Superannuation, Tax, Tax the rich.
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I have written recently to the Australian Financial Review – a newspaper in the process of joining the fruitcake faction of capital and becoming a more educated version of The Australian – on mining companies and tax and superannuation. In the interests of free speech for more than just billionaires and their sycophants I reproduce below my to date unpublished letters.
Tax the rich – a few suggestions
Posted by John, April 2nd, 2013 - under Tax, Tax the rich.
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Taxing the rich and spending the money on the poor and workers isn’t ‘socialism’ but it will make life better for them. It will require a shift to combativeness by the working class to put tax the rich back on the political agenda.
Capital and tax – a very simple example
Posted by John, March 20th, 2013 - under Capitalism, Marx, Marxism, Profit rates, Tax.
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As profit rates have fallen and are up to half what they were in the boom years of the 50s and 60s, across the developed world the state has responded by cutting taxes on capital.
Marx and taxing economic rent in Australia
Posted by John, February 20th, 2013 - under Economic rent, John Passant, Karl Marx, Marx, Tax.
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A very amateurish first draft by me on Marx and taxing economic rent, with too much explanation of basic ideas and then off on tangents and misunderstood ideas. http://docs.business.auckland.ac.nz/Doc/51-John-Passant.pdf
An article of mine on superannuation tax rorts in the Canberra Times
Posted by John, February 12th, 2013 - under Superannuation, Tax, Tax expenditures, Tax the rich.
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This is an article of mine in the Canberra Times on Tuesday 12 February. I argue that the benefits of the superannuation tax concessions go disproportionately and overwhelmingly to the rich and that it’s time to end the super tax rorts.
Me in the media recently on tax
Posted by John, February 11th, 2013 - under Tax, Tax design, Tax policy, Tax reform.
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‘Mining Tax shortfall: the experts respond’ The Conversation 8 February 2013 ‘Current super concessions favour the wealthy – so why aren’t we supporting reform?” The Conversation 8 February 2013
Superannuation for the rich?
Posted by John, February 6th, 2013 - under Age pension, Pensioners, Superannuation, Tax, Tax expenditures, Tax the rich.
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A universal benefits scheme such as the age pension for all people over 65 and steeply progressive income tax rates and wealth and wealth transfer taxes are traditional left wing approaches to make the rich support the poor and less well off in society. It is time to tax the rich and that means getting rid of their tax rorts like superannuation tax concessions.
Screwing low paid workers: Fringe Benefits Tax and the not-for-profit sector
Posted by John, February 5th, 2013 - under Fringe Benefits Tax, Gillard Government, Gillard Labor, Not for profit sector, SACS workers, Social and Community Sector, Social and Community Service sector, Strikes, Tax, Tax policy, Tax reform, Tax the rich.
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To address the Gillard government possibly undermining Fringe Benefits Tax concessions for low paid female and male workers in the Not For Profit sector, maybe it’s time for a real industrial campaign to win massive pay increases and leave the tax fiddling to big business and the rich.