Archive for October 20th, 2015
My Razor Sharp interview with Sharon Firebrace on 20 October
Posted by John, October 20th, 2015 - under John Passant, Razor Sharp, Sharon Firebrace.
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This is the link to my 30 minute Razor Sharp interview with Sharon Firebrace on 20 October. We discuss among other things the polls and Turnbull’s popularity, the likelihood of a March election, the lack of fight in Labor, problems in the economy, privatisation, neoliberalism, tax and much much more.
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Tax, Turnbull and the Cayman Islands again
Posted by John, October 20th, 2015 - under Malcolm Turnbull, Tax, Tax avoidance, Tax havens.
Tags: Cayman Islands
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An annual net wealth tax on the top 10 percent of the wealth holders, abolition of the superannuation tax haven, removal of the capital gains tax concession, taxing trusts like companies, imposing a super profits tax on all industries (such as banks, not just mining companies,) making the current income tax system more progressive, with for example a 100% rate on all income greater than $250,000, are just a few suggestions that come to my mind. Of course, Labor as a party of neoliberalism won’t do anything radical. It will fiddle while the revenue Rome burns