Why cutting company taxes will fail to boost investment

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By Leith van Onselen

While the Turnbull Government and the Business Council of Australia (BCA) continue to insist that reducing the company tax rate is essential to fuel investment, jobs and wages growth, evidence of the impact from the recent US corporate tax cuts to 21% from 35% continues to disappoint, fuelling little more than a boom in share buybacks:

American companies are investing in their own stocks at a record pace…

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About the author
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.