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Book review: From free to fair markets: liberalism after COVID-19

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Published on 01 Dec 22 by "AUSTRALIAN TAX FORUM" JOURNAL ARTICLE

A new work by Richard Holden and Rosalind Dixon engages with the impact on tax policy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The responses by government included unprecedented intervention in the economy to support wages. The authors advocate a range of measures to deal with the disruption created by the pandemic, including a universal jobs guarantee, increases to the minimum wage, universal healthcare, a public baseline for child care and basic leave benefifits, extended infrastructure spending and environmental taxes. To fund these measures, a range of tax reform proposals are discussed, including a progressive GST that reduces GST for low-income earners, removing CGT concessions and a preference for taxing capital rather than income. The authors raise important questions as to the adequacy of the tax policy settings developed during the last few decades, in a rapidly changing world that places increasing demands on government to fund range of current and new programs.

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Everton MacIntyre
Amrit is a partner in the Sydney office of Baker McKenzie where he focuses on taxation planning and advisory work. He is one of Australia’s most prominent tax lawyers and is a member of the Australian Taxation Office Public Rulings Panel and chairperson of Office of State Revenue/Taxation Institute of Australia Liaison Committee. Amrit is recognised as a leading practitioner in Asia Pacific Legal 500, Chambers Asia Pacific, International Tax Review’s World Tax, International Tax Review’s Indirect Tax Leaders Guide, International Tax Review’s Tax Controversy Leaders Guide, PLC Which Lawyer?, Tax Directors Handbook, Who’s Who Legal Corporate Tax and The Australian Financial Review’s Best Lawyers in Australia. - Current at 27 May 2021
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