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It's also worth checking out how "remote" services are defined under the GST rules. Apparently once you get past 1400km from the nearest capital it doesn't get any more expensive to provide services no matter how much further you go. Also Hobart isn't big enough to count as a capital so everything in Tassie is considered in terms of its distance from Melbourne.

Consequently, providing education services to remote communities is more expensive in Tasmania than it is in W.A.

two heads = twice the education resources required
 
Out of interest, what are you basing this on? Because it is ******* expensive providing remote education in WA. We have hundreds of Aboriginal communities, far more than any other state, that need education services. These are incredibly difficult to staff and is a major issue for our education department.

I've done a lot of work with them advising how to best do this with less money. It isn't easy as the costs involved are huge per student. In the region of $40kpa per student for some schools.

Or are you saying this is how it is counted in the GST calcs and it is incorrect?

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Three little letters that has caused so much political heartache over the past 30 years.

We may as well have a thread on it as it seems that this will be a recurring topic of discussion over the term of this Parliament.

I personally don't want to hear any excuses, if the GST rises or broadens then Stamp Duty has to be consigned to history. No ifs or buts about it.

& its back on the agenda

The tax base of the GST, the (NSW) states’ biggest source of unconditional federal funding, has dropped below 56 per cent of consumption spending for the first time, as the share of household spending on health, an exempt category, continues to grow. GST revenues were marked down by $8.3bn over the next four years in the most recent federal budget.

On current trends, the gap between NSW revenue and expenditure would grow to $20.6bn by 2026, requiring a fifth of revenue to be dedicated to servicing debt.

“To put this in perspective, the state’s entire education budget would not have the revenue to support it,” the report added.



& surprise, surprise everyone wants more ....

The stitch up for the last election was never going to last
 
& its back on the agenda

The tax base of the GST, the (NSW) states’ biggest source of unconditional federal funding, has dropped below 56 per cent of consumption spending for the first time, as the share of household spending on health, an exempt category, continues to grow. GST revenues were marked down by $8.3bn over the next four years in the most recent federal budget.

On current trends, the gap between NSW revenue and expenditure would grow to $20.6bn by 2026, requiring a fifth of revenue to be dedicated to servicing debt.

“To put this in perspective, the state’s entire education budget would not have the revenue to support it,” the report added.



& surprise, surprise everyone wants more ....

The stitch up for the last election was never going to last

The GST cannot be the solution for the states in the long term. They need to have their own self-sufficient tax base.
 
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The GST cannot be the solution for the states in the long term. They need to have their own self-sufficient tax base.

They've got the message
 

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Not to mention Governments awarding tenders to global businesses which pay little or no tax

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If we need to broaden the tax base, what the hell were all those tax cuts about?
To both big business and high income earners.

Flattening the tax brackets, refusing to change the PRRT and not moving on things like Super, is insane.

At a state level, Victoria and NSW could at least get serious about a real vacancy tax. Both for main street shop frontage in high foot traffic areas and for dwellings. Also, maybe it's time to invest in some state owned assets again, you know to collect revenue and fund future spending like they used to do. The federal government raising GST though, would be the fast track to recession.
 

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To both big business and high income earners.

Flattening the tax brackets, refusing to change the PRRT and not moving on things like Super, is insane.

At a state level, Victoria and NSW could at least get serious about a real vacancy tax. Both for main street shop frontage in high foot traffic areas and for dwellings. Also, maybe it's time to invest in some state owned assets again, you know to collect revenue and fund future spending like they used to do. The federal government raising GST though, would be the fast track to recession.

Reallocate all transport related taxes to the states directly. Fuel taxes etc. direct swap with GST back to the feds.


Feds concentrate on health, defence, welfare etc. leave infrastructure entirely to the states, funded user pays.(No silver shovels for you, guys)

revenue and congestion solved it the one policy (or at least the levers in place which can be moved to solve the same)
 
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...The cynic in me thinks the swell of political support for assisted dying laws is part of the government figuring out that the medical costs for the boomers are about to go through the roof.

You're not alone. Assisted dying at a time when society is getting increasingly cynical and rationalist. Hmmm. But lets not pretend it wasn't happening anyway. At least checks are in place now.
 

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Reallocate all transport related taxes to the states directly. Fuel taxes etc. direct swap with GST back to the feds.


Feds concentrate on health, defence, welfare etc. leave infrastructure entirely to the states, funded user pays.(No silver shovels for you, guys)

revenue and congestion solved it the one policy (or at least the levers in place which can be moved to solve the same)
No federal LNP government will ever take more responsibility for healthcare funding, only healthcare policy.

Likewise, they will never give up a revenue stream.

Taxes on wealth leveraged at a state level and return on publicly owned investments and assets is the only way the states will even increase revenue without a GST rise.
 

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No federal LNP government will ever take more responsibility for healthcare funding, only healthcare policy.

Likewise, they will never give up a revenue stream.

Taxes on wealth leveraged at a state level and return on publicly owned investments and assets is the only way the states will even increase revenue without a GST rise.

I realise this, but my direction would result in everything being much more efficient, and with congestion-population, we should be making every dollar count
Anyway the fuel tax revenue will also die with vehicle efficiency. Registration based funding is the states anyway
 
...The cynic in me thinks the swell of political support for assisted dying laws is part of the government figuring out that the medical costs for the boomers are about to go through the roof.

It's more about getting out of a massive legal minefield

The number of docs and nurses who have at patient or family instruction juiced a morphine drip or similar is massive, and technically all were guilty of murder.

The ama, the nurses, and the aged care lobby have been pushing for this law for years, because as Pessimistic said it's about having structure around the process and not having all the obligation on a health care worker

Fwiw from the ones I've spoken to, it's never a money decision
 
It's more about getting out of a massive legal minefield

The number of docs and nurses who have at patient or family instruction juiced a morphine drip or similar is massive, and technically all were guilty of murder.

The ama, the nurses, and the aged care lobby have been pushing for this law for years, because as Pessimistic said it's about having structure around the process and not having all the obligation on a health care worker

Fwiw from the ones I've spoken to, it's never a money decision

You're spot on about it already happening and I wouldn't question the motives of the medical professionals, but I have a nagging thought that there are bean counters who can see it saving a lot of money for the government if families opt to end their loved ones life over continued care.
 
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