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Will ScoMo gift himself $27bn in iron ore lies?
From UBS: 16/17 CW Budget Preview – the end of slippage? Treasurer Morrison will bring down the 16/17 Commonwealth Budget on May 3 (a week earlier than normal) – his 1st & the Coalition Governments’ 3rd.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
13
Fitch: Investor gloom on Aussie credit spreads
From Fitch: Fitch Ratings-Sydney-14 April 2016: Australian investors remain downbeat in their outlook for credit, with more than half expecting fundamental credit conditions for financials and corporates to deteriorate over the next 12 months, according to Fitch Ratings’ fifth fixed-income investor survey.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
Land tax is needed but won’t happen
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
69
Smoking the AAA
From The Australian: Scott Morrison has stared down a warning from one of the world’s most powerful ratings agencies, after it questioned the government’s strategy to fix the budget and warned that continued increases in national debt would risk the nation’s AAA credit rating.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
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Metricon wins land-tax case: everyone loses
By David Collyer, cross-posted from Prosper Australia: The national pastime of withholding land from use and enforcing scarcity has been boosted in the NSW Supreme Court when developer Metricon won a land tax case against the Chief Commissioner of State Revenue.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
36
Moody’s warns AAA rating needs tax hikes
From Moody’s: Australia’s Focus on Spending Cuts Makes Balancing Budget Difficult Last Friday, Australia (Aaa stable) Treasurer Scott Morrison announced that the budget to be released on 3 May would focus on curbing spending to lower the government’s fiscal deficit.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
10
IPA head knocks self out in tax debate
By Leith van Onselen John Roskam, Executive Director of the right-wing think tank the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), has led a vicious ad hominem attack against a large group of commentators whom opposes cutting the company tax rate.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
31
Are Australia’s iron ore forecasts fraudulent?
After the Office of the Chief Economist’s disgraceful iron ore outlook released last week, David Uren takes up the debate over iron ore and the Budget today: Last year’s budget described the fall in the iron market as “the largest single contributor to writedowns to government tax receipts”.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
7
A sugar tax would save lives and the Budget
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
54
Turnbull’s government has degenerated into a circus
The Turnbull Government has degenerated into a circus.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
135
Garnaut: Govt unable to bail-out banks a 2nd time
By Leith van Onselen Professor Ross Garnaut fronted the Melbourne Economic Forum yesterday and warned that the Government would be unable to bail-out the banks again if another Global Financial Crisis (GFC) hit.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
12
Armchair Left begs Turnbull to locate brain
From Fairfax: Fifty prominent Australians have written an open letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declaring “Australia doesn’t need lower taxes” and calling for the federal government to place fairness at the heart of the 2016 federal budget.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
24
Company tax cuts would lower national income
By Leith van Onselen Janine Dixon from the Centre of Policy Studies at Victoria University has released new modelling showing that cutting company taxes, as flagged by the Coalition, would actually reduce national income – the best measure of living standards – in turn hammering another nail into the Turnbull Government’s tax reform plans.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
19
Truly an LNG boom for the dills
From Fairfax: The once-in-a-lifetime liquefied natural gas boom off the coast of Western Australia will not deliver any significant royalties to the federal government for at least two decades, according to an analysis prepared for the state’s government.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
4
High speed rail all about spreading the property bubble
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
63
NAB: Australian AAA rating in trouble
From NAB: Commonwealth budget restraint required to keep AAA rating.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
22
Turnbull throws ponzi rail hail Mary
By Leith van Onselen You know it’s an election year when the Prime Minister announces a plan to develop “high speed rail” (HSR) links between Australia’s capital cities.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
57
Naked Emperor Barnett gets another bailout
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
10
Son of BREE hands Turnbott huge Budget windfall
I really can’t face tearing apart Son of BREE’s quarterly forecasts again so late in the week but here’s the table for iron ore prices: Note that these are FOB prices so add $5 for CFR.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
18
Odd bedfellows on land tax reform
By David Collyer, cross-posted from Prosper Australia: Something is up when the NSW Business Chamber allies with the NSW Council of Social Services and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
53
Forget high speed rail, fund inland instead
By Leith van Onselen Former Nationals leader, John Anderson, has called on the Federal Government to commit to funding a 1,700 kilometre inland rail freight line connecting Melbourne to Brisbane.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
56
Average uni fees to rise to $50k within decade
By Leith van Onselen The Coalition’s planned 20% cut to university funding, along with the deregulation of university fees, is projected to raise the average cost of a 3-year university degree to $50,000 with a decade.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
26
WA Bacchanal turns GST “fleecing”
From the ABC: A furious Western Australian Treasurer Mike Nahan says the state has been fleeced by the Commonwealth Grants Commission, which has recommended an increase of just $148 million in GST revenue.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
47
Turnbull rolls back more reform
By Leith van Onselen After mulling the idea for several months, the Turnbull Government has reportedly ruled-out reforming workplace deductions in a bid to find Budget savings.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
45
Uni fee deregulation a Coalition “own goal”
By Leith van Onselen The Labor Party has accused the Coalition of scoring a “bizarre own goal” in its bid to deregulate university fees after the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) forecast that higher education student debts owed to the Government would blow out to $185 billion in a decade.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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