Lachlan Hotchin - Economics Students Society of Australia

Lachlan Hotchin

Taxing Times: 'States' Responsibilities'

Taxing Times: 'States' Responsibilities'

In the wake of the COVID-induced recession late last year, I brought ESSA readers an article on the most exigent suite of reforms at the Federal level. However, as we’ve entered the second quarter of the 2021 with the virus well and truly suppressed, there is a conversation to

Australia's Super Priorities: Issues and Reforms

Import 2022-12-14 05:06

Australia's Super Priorities: Issues and Reforms

There’s been considerable debate about the rate of Australia’s superannuation system, in other words, what proportion of an individual’s wages ought to be sequestered and invested for retirement. Given that the Morrison Government went to the 2019 Election pledging to follow through on increasing the Superannuation Guarantee

Taxing Times - Federal Priorities

Import 2022-12-14 05:06

Taxing Times - Federal Priorities

‘If you look at what’s happened to the Australian tax system over the past decade…you’d have to say things have gotten very much worse, not better.’ [1] – Dr Ken Henry. This is the epitaph on the 2010s apropos of tax reform. The 2010s were a lost decade