En Passant

Hot off the presses, my article in the Journal of the Australasian Tax Teachers Association on Neoliberalism in Australia and the Henry Tax Review.

I have just uploaded a paper on neoliberalism in Australia and the Henry Tax Review on SSRN.

In the paper I examine the neoliberal nature of Australia’s Future Tax System Report, the Henry Tax Review.

My article on tax reform by the 1% and for the 1% in today’s (Wednesday’s) Canberra Times. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opinion/the-wealthy-are-a-taxing-problem-20120717-228n5.html

It’s the rich what gets the gravy, it’s the poor what gets the blame. That just about sums up Henry’s long term tax vision for Australian capitalism.

The Labor Government’s Resource Super Profits Tax is about redistributing wealth – from one section of the ruling class to the rest. The RSPT will tax the so-called super profits of Australian mining companies. Rudd Labor will use the $9 billion it raises to cut the company tax rate and thus increase after tax profits […]

Taxing the rich and their businesses must be the policy of the left.

This isn’t tax reform, even for the bosses. It’s tax shuffling, buying votes for a July or August election. It reflects the gutlessness of a Government whose great moral challenge is getting re-elected.

This is a letter I sent to the Australian Financial Review after they reported the head of Treasury, Ken Henry, saying basically that now was not the time to make radical changes to the tax system. It’s me lecturing the bourgeoisie to get their tax system in order. For a more leftwing approach my submission to the […]

Soak the rich till their pips squeak. Labor won’t tax the rich because it believes in the primacy of profit and the lie of the trickle down theory – what’s good for the rich is supposedly good for the rest of us.

We should look at taxation through the eyes of the working class. Tax labour lightly and capital heavily.