Chris Richardson joins company tax ‘trickle-down’ delusion

Tuesday 13 February 2018

Deloitte Access Economics partner, Chris Richardson, has joined the conga-line of economists calling for company tax cuts, claiming the economy would benefit to the tune of $20 billion a year. From The AFR:

Parliament is on the brink of flushing away the $20 billion a year economic windfall that would come from cutting the tax rate for big businesses, a leading economist has warned.

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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.