WA prays for a GST miracle

Monday, 20 July 2015

It’s panic stations now for WA Treasurer, Dr Nahan, from Yahoo:

West Australian Treasurer Mike Nahan refuses to talk about changing the GST unless it means increasing his state’s share of the revenue carve-up.

Asked on Monday about NSW Premier Mike Baird’s proposal to lift the GST rate from 10 to 15 per cent, Dr Nahan said the WA government was “not interested”.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.