15 November 2017
Everyone Would Have Paid Cost
South Australians can breathe a sigh of relief today after the State Government declared its bank tax ‘dead’. If any state economy needs lower taxes, less red tape and a more competitive free enterprise environment, it’s South Australia. Well done to the Liberal Party, Australian Conservatives and Advance SA MPs for standing up for SA at a time when this
15 November 2017
Abandonment Of Bank Tax A Win For South Australia
“The bank tax would have crushed investment, job creation, and growth in South Australia. It’s good that it has been abandoned,” said Mr Wild, research fellow with the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Today the South Australian Weatherill Labor government announced it would not be proceeding with the South Australian bank tax. “The South Australian Coalition
3 July 2017
Liberals Right To Reject Economic Vandalism
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the call of the South Australian Liberal Party Room to block South Australia’s disastrous bank levy. “This is a bad tax which should never see the light of day. Steven Marshall and the Liberals are right to block it,” said Daniel Wild, research fellow at the IPA. “The Bank
28 June 2017
How Howard’s Great GST Bargain Got Trashed By Canberra
Policy elites take the view that former prime minister John Howard did a deal with Meg Lees and the Democrats to introduce the GST. In a trivial procedural sense that is accurate. More importantly, however, Howard did a deal with the Australian people that in return for repealing a huge bunch of nuisance taxes, the Commonwealth could levy a broad-based
11 May 2017
Bank Tax Is An Arbitrary Abuse Of Government Power
“The bank tax is an unconscionable violation of the Coalition government’s low tax principles. All taxes are paid for by workers, consumers, and shareholders. The bank tax is no exception. It must not go ahead,” says Daniel Wild, research fellow with the free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs. In the 2017-18 Budget, the Government announced a new
