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Imagine if each of us could direct where our taxes were spent. Meet TaxTrack

  • Written by Jean-Paul Gagnon, Senior lecturer in democracy studies, University of Canberra
Imagine if each of us could direct where our taxes were spent. Meet TaxTrackShutterstock

Ahead of this week’s budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he wants Australians to prepare for a serious conversation about how to pay for the services we need.

We’ve developed a proposal to make that conversation more real.

Australians pay a lot of tax (although less than in some other countries) and we pay it in a lot of...

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