Tax
Give tax breaks to those most in need
Jessica Irvine To all the baby boomers out there nursing wounded retirement nest eggs and having to work into your dotage, my sympathies.
A tax on all rants - me first
Heckler The carbon tax debate has highlighted a far more pressing problem - Opinion Pollution.
More tax dollars and less mining? That's a win-win situation
Michael Gilding The mining industry sucks the oxygen out of the rest of the economy. The industry is on the campaign trail again, spending millions of tax-deductible dollars on advertisements that tell us what a...
Pack a day keeps your tax at bay
Helen Meikle YOU'D think, wouldn't you, that with the huge contributions I make to federal revenue each year I should be regarded as special? A philanthropist. A national hero, even.
Google's teeny weeny tax bill
Stuart Washington Google has posted a loss on estimated revenues of nearly quarter of a billion dollars. What gives?
Should the Popemobile pay traffic congestion tax?
Boris Johnson This visit raises weighty, 21st-century issues of church and state.
Why hasn't the tax office gagged Cardinal Pell?
Derek Mortimer The stoush at the weekend between Cardinal George Pell and the Australian Greens prompts the question ''Where is the Australian Tax Office when you need them?''
No place for tax avoidance
Heckler Taxpayers of Australia, this year, as you undertake the tedious task of completing your tax return, spare a thought for the less fortunate - spare a thought for we tax collectors of Australia.
Miners strangely silent on the billions they reap in tax credits
Charles Berger Resource giants shriek about what they pay. Here's what they get.
Fear campaign on resources tax is a furphy
John Perkins The miners' raucous opposition wilfully ignores the facts.
Premature speculation about rubbers and resources tax
Mike Carlton In my final year at school, back in 1962, it was the done thing to carry a condom in your wallet. Just in case, we told each other, an expression of hope over experience if ever there was.
Robin Hood tax a salve for banking sorrows
Julian Morrow I never thought I'd say this, but I'd like to talk about tax. Before you flee to the Cayman Islands, hold on a second.
Vegetarians' meat tax plan just a load of hot air
Chris Berg A tax on meat would penalise the poor and have little effect on climate change.
'Robin Hood tax' takes from the banks to give to the worthy
Jo-Anne Schofield Time to get something back from the billions paid in bailouts.
Bring on the The Rock Star Tax Break
Lisa Pryor 'Indulging in the politics of envy." This expression deserves broader use. Try it out next time you screech into a car spot someone else has been diligently waiting for, blinker blinking.
We thought they said 'tax heaven'
Mike Carlton The St Jensen's Parish Newsletter
Shop wars are a dirty business
Julie Szego The sign in the shop window near Acland Street caught my attention on a recent afternoon stroll: ''If you don't shop locally, there won't be any local shops.
Once more with feeling, Alan
Peter FitzSimons Bravo, Alan Jones. (And there is a sentence I have not written often - but I mean it.)
Ignoring the unwed childless is singly low
Heckler EVERY federal budget night I'm reminded that the penalty for neither procreating nor partnering up is to be ignored by all political parties, be they left, right or in-between.
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