Miscellaneous 2007

Facts and values in the Australian tax policy debate

Source: Australian Tax Forum Journal Article

Published Date: 1 Jul 2007

 
Over the past few years the Howard government has persisted with a policy of incremental change to the personal income tax system despite repeated calls for more fundamental tax reform. Tax reform has been strongly promoted as meaning reduction in top marginal rates and flattening of the income tax scale and as being required for reasons of efficiency and effectiveness. This paper argues that we ought to be sceptical about the ‘tax reform’ agenda – and indeed about the tendentious use of that term itself. Debate has been dominated by one particular set of interests and values whose position is presented in the normatively-neutral language of positive economics.
Author(s)

Sorry, this is subscriber only content.

To gain access to this material and much more - Subscribe Now.

(Note: Members can access Taxation in Australia journal articles without a Tax Knowledge Exchange subscription - please log in to access).

Already a Subscriber? Login now

Already a Subscriber? Login now

Details

The material is copyright. Apart any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research criticism or review, as permitted under the copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission from The Tax Institute.

Unless expressly stated, opinions are not that of The Tax Institute, which accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the information contained within it.

The Tax Institute
(ABN 45 008 392 372 (PRV14016))

("TTI")

The Tax Institute is a Recognised Tax Agent Association (RTAA) under the Tax Agent Services Regulations 2009. 

Copyright Statement

All materials provided on this site are protected by copyright and are owned by or licensed to TTI.

Except as expressly permitted by TTI or the copyright owner, any person or company who uses this site must not use, reproduce, redistribute, retransmit, publish or otherwise transfer, or commercially exploit, the materials or any information, software or other content, in whole or in part, which is available through this site.

Tags

Miscellaneous 2007

Share this page