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Post-COVID, there'll be less of a reason to cut company tax than before

  • Written by Janine Dixon, Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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They’re at it again, pushing lower company tax as a way to resuscitate the economy.

The arguments were well ventilated at the time the government pushed for company tax cuts, failed to get support in the Senate, and then abandoned them in favour of personal income tax cuts in the leadup to the last election, declaring “we&rsq...

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