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In this paper I use Marxist analysis to examine certain aspects of tax in Australia as a way to help understand the meaning or essence of tax reform. I argue that because of stagnant or declining profit rates globally progressive tax reform today can only be built through and on the back of...
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In this paper I use Marx's analysis of rent to try to understand the complexities associated with the attempts to tax resource rents in Australia. My aim is to dissect ground rent (what the landlord expropriates in capitalist society by virtue of being the owner of land) into its constituent...
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This paper argues that the left must be involved in tax debates and controversies to provide an alternative analysis to the neoliberalism and neoliberal Keynesianism that pervades tax discussion and expresses the interests of the ruling elite. This should be, not as part of speaking power's...
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This paper looks at the development of tax reform in Australia in the light of the rise of neoliberalism globally and its impact on tax policy. It argues that the fall in profit rates across the globe and the lack of class struggle in Australia have allowed neoliberalism and neoliberal tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146003
This draft paper looked at the then proposed introduction of a mechanism to impose a carbon price in Australia from 1 July 2012. (It has now been introduced and came into effect on 1 July.) It argues that the compensation package to ameliorate the impact of the carbon tax will prove illusory...
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