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When COVID is behind us, Australians are going to have to pay more tax

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
When COVID is behind us, Australians are going to have to pay more taxAustralian Tax Office

The biggest unstated message from the intergenerational report released during the lull between lockdowns is that we will need more tax.

Not now. At the moment it’s a matter of throwing everything we’ve got at getting on top of the COVID outbreaks and worrying about how to (and the extent to which we will need to)...

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