Personal income tax reform: consensus, outliers, specifics and some sensitive issues
Tue Oct 30 2007
Australian Tax Forum --- Page: 3-29 : July 2007 Original article by Jeff Pope
LexisNexis Summary
A number of proposals for changing Australia's personal income tax system have been put forward in recent years. These include both raising and abolishing the tax-free threshold, scrapping negative gearing on house purchases, raising the low income tax offset, and simplifying the fringe benefits tax system. Business groups, tax professionals and the academic community generally support income tax reform, and it is an issue that must now be addressed at government level.
