Treasury against debt tax trade-off

Original article by Joanna Mather, Primrose Riordan
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 4 : 25-Jan-16

Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison says that reducing tax deductions will not generate sufficient revenue to fund tax reforms. However, the Treasury’s submission to parliament’s economics committee has argued against financing a corporate tax cut via the abolition of tax deductions for corporate debt. This view is shared by the Business Council of Australia and companies such as CSL and Inpex, which have also made submissions to the inquiry.

CORPORATES
AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE TREASURY, BUSINESS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA, CSL LIMITED – ASX CSL, INPEX CORPORATION, KPMG AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA. PARLIAMENTARY BUDGET OFFICE, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA

Hockey’s budget hole heading to $41b

Original article by Phillip Coorey
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1-Apr : 17-Jul-14

The Australian Government may face resistance in the Senate to its plans to abolish some $A4bn worth of tax breaks as part of its proposal to repeal the mining tax. Two independent senators intend to vote against scrapping the tax breaks, and the defeat of this measure would be another blow for the Government, which has already faced opposition from Palmer United Party senators to several other measures that are linked to the mining tax

CORPORATES
PALMER UNITED PARTY, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIAN GREENS, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE TREASURY, LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY