What the government can learn from the backpacker tax debacle
- Written by Joanna Howe, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Adelaide
At the eleventh hour, and after a protracted saga beginning with the May 2015 federal budget, the furore over the backpacker tax has finally ended. Despite the federal government initially proposing a 32.5% tax rate for backpackers, followed by a post-election compromise of 19% and a refusal to negotiate below this, the federal government reached...
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