After last month claiming that “Australia’s high company tax rate is wage theft on a grand scale”, Business Council of Australia (BCA) president, Grant King, returned yesterday for another dose of company tax cut propaganda. From The Australian:
Our high corporate tax rate is the area where we are under the most competitive pressure — we now have the third-highest rate in the industrialised world. A globally competitive tax rate is one of the most direct and effective economy-wide policy levers we have to boost investment.