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Blog posts April 2018

Federal Budget 2018-19 Preview for Queensland

The Federal Budget to be delivered next Tuesday evening (7.30pm AEST, 8 May 2018) is undoubtedly Treasurer Scott Morrison's most important and complex balancing act.

The Coalition is under pressure (self-imposed) to provide a ‘sugar hit’ that best positions it with a looming election but at…

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Just how competitive are our State's Payroll Tax arrangements for Queensland Businesses?

We often hear how competitive Queensland’s payroll tax regime is with politicians boasting that we have the lowest rate at 4.75% and one of the highest exemption thresholds. However our competitiveness is not as straight forward as many people think.  So just how competitive are Queensland's …

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The Queensland Productivity Commission - unloved or just underutilised?

I currently liken the Queensland Productivity Commission (QPC) to a team’s star player who is being forced to sit on the sideline as the big game unfolds.

The QPC is the State's independent economic review body established by former Treasurer, Curtis Pitt, in 2015 to review complex economic…

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Queensland still wins from GST carve-up but by not as much

The annual process conducted by the Commonwealth Grants Commission came to head today with the carve-up of the $65.8 billion in GST revenue to be collected across Australia in 2018-19.  Referred to as ‘Horizontal Fiscal Equalisation’ the process recognises the concept under Federation that no State …

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