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Shock. More investment isn't necessarily better. Those instant asset write-offs are bad tax policy

  • Written by Steven Hamilton, Visiting Scholar, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
imageTax policy shouldn't result in the buying of new cars, unless they would have been bought anyway.Tookapic/Pexels

This is the final in a three-part series on the budget tax measures that began with an analysis of the government’s plan to flatten the tax schedule and continued with an analysis of its plan to target tax relief at low and middle...

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