GST is again being promoted as tax ‘reform’. See this. The GST was going to do away with tax avoidance: remember? It is a profoundly regressive tax, having nothing at all to recommend it.

GST is part of the simplistic rotation between emphasis on income taxes to sales taxes and back to income taxes again that pointedly ignores the ongoing speculative real estate bubbles we’ve been experiencing.

You’re having a job done on you, Australians!

Harvard graduate and tax experty, Dr Terry Dwyer, exposes GST nonsense here: