Taxation
Taxation is an important part of economic policy – not only in raising revenue for governments to spend, but also in influencing private saving, investment and spending decisions, and for affecting the distribution of income and wealth. Decisions as to what is (or isn’t taxed), and at what rate, are always controversial, and sometimes have unintended consequences.
Labor’s negative gearing aims echo Coalition housing changes
Housing, Publications, Taxation | 23rd March 2016Saul Eslake | The New Daily | 23rd March 2016 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been vocal in decrying the Labor Opposition’s plans to restrict negative gearing to investors buying new properties, claiming it will lead to a crash in the price of existing housing. But the evidence is against this hypothesis. Over the last five […]
Negative gearing proponents’ claims don’t stack up
Publications, Taxation | 15th March 2016Saul Eslake | The New Daily | 16th March 2016 Negative gearing policy has been a battleground for many years and its emergence as a hot button issue in the upcoming federal election has brought the friends and enemies of the practice into the field once more. Some are warning about “unintended consequences” which they say […]
The case against negative gearing
Publications, Taxation | 18th February 2016Op-ed article published in the Australian Financial Review, 18th February 2016, alongside an opposing viewpoint from Ken Morrison, CEO of the Property Council of Australia
Reforming the Australian Taxation System: A Principled Approach
Taxation | 22nd September 2015Address to the Australian Financial Review’s Tax Reform Summit, 22nd September 2015
Small businesses aren’t really the ‘engine room’ of the economy, and don’t deserve preferential tax treatment
Taxation | 15th August 2015Article published in ‘Management Today’, the magazine of the Australian Institute of Management, August 2015
Reflections on the October 2011 Tax Forum
Taxation | 12th October 2011Article published in the Melbourne Age, and in the online edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, 12th October 2011
Australia’s Tax Reform Challenge
Taxation | 21st September 2011Australian Parliamentary Library Lecture, 21st September 2011
The case against negative gearing …
Publications, Taxation | 25th April 2011Op-ed article published in the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, 25th April 2011
