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dc.contributor.authorFenna, Alan
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:47:04Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:47:04Z
dc.date.created2014-10-28T02:23:22Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationFenna, A. 2007. Facts and Values in the Australian Tax Policy Debate. Australian Tax Forum. 22 (3): pp. 29-41.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5563
dc.description.abstract

Over the past few years the Howard government has persisted with a policy of incremental change to the personal income tax system despite repeated calls for more fundamental tax reform. Tax reform has been strongly promoted as meaning reduction in top marginal rates and flattening of the income tax scale and as being required for reasons of efficiency and effectiveness. This paper argues that we ought to be sceptical about the ‘tax reform’ agenda – and indeed about the tendentious use of that term itself. Debate has been dominated by one particular set of interests and values whose position is presented in the normatively-neutral language of positive economics.

dc.publisherTaxation Institute of Australia
dc.titleFacts and Values in the Australian Tax Policy Debate
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume22
dcterms.source.number3
dcterms.source.startPage29
dcterms.source.endPage41
dcterms.source.issn0812695X
dcterms.source.titleAustralian Tax Forum
curtin.departmentJohn Curtin Institute of Public Policy (Research Institute)
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