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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Greg Jericho

The biggest voices need to admit Australia is a low-taxing nation before joining the economic reform conversation

Workers walk on the streets of the Sydney CBD
‘If you can’t admit Australia is a low-taxing nation, then you should not get entry into any roundtable discussion on the topic,’ Greg Jericho writes. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

Jim Chalmers has reinvigorated the economic policy debate with all the talk now about his economic reform roundtable.

Unfortunately, the biggest voices invariably are those who desire to help themselves. The other problem is the debate remains bounded in purposeful obfuscation. That is why it is very pleasing to read Acoss’s new report – Taxing income less and consumption more: The case against – which factchecks some myths about Australia’s tax system.

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