WA the rightful winner in proposed GST carve-up

Tuesday, 10 October 2017

Yesterday, the Productivity Commission (PC) released its draft report on Horizontal Fiscal Equalisation (HFE), which approved the overall goal of equalisation between states but also recommended changes to the way in which tax revenues (principally the GST) are distributed.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.