Last year the top 900 companies in Australia effectively paid 19 cents in the dollar tax, while the rest of us paid 30 cents. That cost us $25 billion, about two thirds of our current budget deficit. Joe Hockey's response is to propose an increase to the GST and a tax cut for corporations.
This illustrates the economic challenges faced by the Abbott government: how to to tax companies less, lower wages, create less jobs and still find enough money to pay for the tens of billions used to subsidise big business in Australia.
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