The government has pulled a switfy. They’ve got everyone thinking they are going to cut taxes. They aren’t. Taxes are going up under the government’s income tax plan which passed the Senate...
Australia is has experienced a gigantic fall in entrepreneurship. Between 2003-05 and 2012-14, small business start-ups — as a percentage of all small businesses — declined by 40 per cent. This...
“Today’s decision from the Fair Work Commission rubbishes the Australian Council of Trade Union’s call for a ‘living wage’,” said Aaron Lane, Legal Fellow at free market think tank the Institute...
The hearings of the banking royal commission have, at different times, resembled a cross between the Soviet show trials of the 1930s and the American TV show L.A. Law of the 1980s. All those...
If Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull were corporate CEOs, they’d be done for misleading and deceptive conduct. They claim that the 2018-19 Budget will cut taxes. To most people, this would mean...
The budget is littered with titbits mostly designed to garner political support. There’s the targeted, low and middle-income tax offsets which will provide relatively small tax cuts for those...
This article first appeared in the May 2018 IPA Review. PDF version is here. With its push for corporate tax reforms, the Federal government is billing 2018 to be the year of the tax cut, but...
Treasurer Scott Morrison’s budget speech opened with the remark ‘What have you achieved?’ to which the chamber responded with howling laughter. This was the fifth budget of the Coalition...
The IPA’s Simon Breheny and Daniel Wild dissect the 2018 Federal Budget and talk about why they are so disappointed.
When a politician promises to give you something in 10 years, you can bet it’ll never happen. Promised tax cuts in Tuesday night’s Budget won’t match expectations, and a Coalition government —...
IPA Director of Policy, Simon Breheny, and Research Fellow, Daniel Wild, today appeared before the Senate Economics Committee inquiry into the commitments made by the Business Council of Australia...
Below is an extract from the IPAs submission to the Senate Economics References Committee This Senate Inquiry is highly questionable. It refers to an undertaking made by private companies in...
Writing in these pages Professor Peter Swan AO has forwarded several arguments against the federal government’s proposed company tax rate changes. While he is a giant of the profession and a...
Our new research brief discusses Australia’s alarming GST problem. IPA research has found that the states that are responsible for contributing the most to the GST pool – New South Wales...
New research released by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs reveals how GST equalisation is creating a class of winners and losers among Australian states. IPA Research Fellow...
Greens leader Richard Di Natale told the National Press Club yesterday that, because of the changing nature of work, Australia should introduce a universal basic income. His proposal would be...
In a speech to the Chifley Institute last week, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten announced that the Labor Party would introduce further changes to Australia’s compulsory superannuation system.1 The...
Tony Abbott made some blunders as prime minister. He raised the top rate of income tax, ruled out curtailing health and education spending, and he walked away from his commitments on freedom of...
