Top Tweets for #RevenueSummit26
Centre for Future Work CEO Ben Spies-Butcher tells the #RevenueSummit26 that wealth needs to be, and can be, taxed better in Australia.
Director of the Centre for Policy Studies at Victoria University, Professor Janine Dixon, tells the #RevenueSummit26 about the need to tax artificial intelligence companies, and put those systems in place early, to ensure that Australians do see benefit from the AI boom.
Independent Economist Saul Eslake has called the GST sweetheart deal for WA the worst public policy decision of the 21st century.
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How could you use the $17 billion raised (annually!) from a 25% gas export tax?
Catelyn Richards from the nurses and midwives union says healthcare could be greatly improved.
Dr Terri Macdonald from the NTEU says universities could be fee-free.
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National Secretary of the Maritime Union, Thomas Mayo, says revenue raised from a 25% tax on gas exports would not only improve services, but could also be used to increase investment in renewable energy.
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Tenant's Union of NSW CEO Leo Patterson Ross has told the #RevenueSummit26 that renters need more support, and people are having to make difficult choices and are moving away from their local networks because they can't afford to live in their communities.
"We can't fix the housing crisis without (tax reform)", says Maiy Azize from Everybody's Home and Anglicare.
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Australia Institute Senior Economist Matt Grudnoff,tells the #RevenueSummit26 the CGT, introduced by the Howard government in 1999, greatly contributed to housing inequality, and that Labor's recent changes have brought house prices down while ensuring investment in new homes.
Megan Spindler-Smith, Acting CEO of People With Disability Australia, said budgets are about choices, and a 25% tax on gas exports could help vulnerable Australians.
Australia Institute research shows that tax could raise $17 billion every year.
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"Over 300,000 people will lose access to the NDIS by the end of the decade... thousands of jobs are at risk."
Muriel Cummins from Every Australian Counts has given the #RevenueSummit26 a sense of the scale of the cuts and how much it hurts people with disability.
"These are human rights issues... can we afford the consequences of cuts (to the NDIS)?"
Sophie Cusworth, CEO of Women with Disabilities Australia, tells the #RevenueSummit26 Australians need to think about what kind of country we want to be.
“There is so much momentum for 25 per cent tax on gas." - Leanne Minshull, co-CEO of The Australia Institute.
Australia Institute research shows a flat 25% gas export tax could raise $17 billion a year.
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“There’s almost no opposition to it... people really support this as a policy issue." - Australia Institute Deputy Director Ebony Bennett on a 25% tax on gas exports, which could raise $17 billion every year.
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Why didn’t Australia follow Norway’s lead and make sure gas wealth benefits the public?
At the #RevenueSummit26, Independent MP Nicolette Boele called the decision not to create a similar regime to Norway "irresponsible".
A 25% gas export tax could raise $17bn every year.
Back at the #RevenueSummit26, our Chief Economist Greg Jericho says a 25% tax on gas exports would make a huge difference to the budget.
“If we had a 25% tax on gas exports as of this morning, we would have been up to $78 billion.”
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Speaking at the #RevenueSummit26, Greens Senator @BarbaraPocock said "nowhere is the perverted nature of our tax system more clear" than when it comes to gas.
"Every day we fail to tax our gas exports we lose $50 million and every year we lose $17 billion," Senator Pocock said.
"Tax things you want less of and subsidise things you want more of" - Dr Richard Denniss tells the #RevenueSummit26.
For more follow The Point's live blog: https://t.co/h13u2cKHwe
The #RevenueSummit26 is underway in Canberra! In his opening remarks, Australia Institute co-CEO Dr Richard Denniss explains about how Australia is a low-tax country, and how budgets are about choices, despite what Australians have been told for years.
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