, Australia's income tax has funded expansion of Australia's social security system. The uniform income tax plan of 1942 unified … Australia's system of income taxes, and was central to funding the introduction of Australia's unique social security system … embedded in Australia's national tax and social security systems established between 1942 and 1944.The design of Australia …

reflects a compromise between the need to keep fiscal federalism intact and to respond to a more global economic impera …