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Taxation is an important part of economic policy – not only in raising revenue for governments to spend, but also in influencing private saving, investment and spending decisions, and for affecting the distribution of income and wealth. Decisions as to what is (or isn’t taxed), and at what rate, are always controversial, and sometimes have unintended consequences.
Saul Eslake | The New Daily | 23rd March 2016 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been vocal in decrying the Labor Opposition’s plans to restrict negative gearing to investors buying new properties, claiming it will lead to a crash in the price of existing housing. But the evidence is against this hypothesis. Over the last five […]
Saul Eslake | The New Daily | 16th March 2016 Negative gearing policy has been a battleground for many years and its emergence as a hot button issue in the upcoming federal election has brought the friends and enemies of the practice into the field once more. Some are warning about “unintended consequences” which they say […]
Op-ed article published in the Australian Financial Review, 18th February 2016, alongside an opposing viewpoint from Ken Morrison, CEO of the Property Council of Australia
Address to the Australian Financial Review’s Tax Reform Summit, 22nd September 2015
Article published in ‘Management Today’, the magazine of the Australian Institute of Management, August 2015
Article published in the Melbourne Age, and in the online edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, 12th October 2011
Australian Parliamentary Library Lecture, 21st September 2011
Op-ed article published in the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, 25th April 2011
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