Taxpayers will lend $120 million to finance solar panels, light globes and insulation as emissions reduction measures for Curtin University’s new student lodgings
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Hardworking Australians deserve greater say in planning for our retirement. Compulsory superannuation is a windfall for the unions despite their falling membership rates, and often means less financial security for workers in the long run as they miss out on the opportunity to save and invest in a home or invest in other assets.
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Allowing wealthy individuals who live in multi-million dollar palatial mansions to claim handouts funded by hardworking middle and working class taxpayers is an unconscionable rort that must end now if our pension system is to be sustainable in the decades to come.
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In two years alone, Western Australia’s state politicians have racked up an exorbitant $1 million+ international travel bill, all paid for by ordinary taxpayers.
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These draconian ideas are nothing more than an unjustified attack on responsible Australian adult drinkers and hardworking taxpaying businesses already doing it tough due to brutal sin taxes on alcohol and social engineering programs like NSW’s lockout laws
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While we thank Smith for his apparent generosity in wanting to donate $500,000 to the public purse, we wish that he would demonstrate this by donating the money himself and not by demanding tax hikes on other retirees.
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Taxpayers have poured billions into managing and restoring the Murray-Darling river basin and all we’ve received in return have been opaque, dubious decisions and millions lost in handouts. All while the nation’s farmers and rural communities struggle through water shortages.
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The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance, today released their submission to the NSW’s inquiry on Sydney’s night-time economy and called for the Berejiklian government to abolish Sydney’s lockout laws for good.
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We thank the Greens for commissioning estimates which rubbish their claim that the third tranche of the government's tax cuts will primarily benefit the 'top-end of town'.
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71-nation York University studies find no evidence that the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has reduced smoking. Australian JCU study finds that plain packaging has been followed by reduced household tobacco expenditure, but an increase in quantity of tobacco consumed.
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The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance today backed NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrotett’s push for fairer distribution of GST revenue, to ensure that hardworking NSW taxpayers get a fair go.
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Island security contracts to deliver the best value for taxpayers, instead of Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton’s current plan to extend the 22-month $432 million refugee facility security contract currently in place with controversial contractor, Paladin Solutions. The current deal with Paladin Solutions is currently under Attorney General investigation after it was awarded without a tender process in 2017.
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The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance (ATA) has condemned newly minted WA Liberal Opposition leader Liza Harvey for reversing her predecessor Mike Nahan’s commitment to liberalise trading hours for hardworking WA businesses.
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It’s all well and good to pass laws that protect those who dob in tax evaders, but what about strengthening protections for whistleblowers like Richard Boyle who faces a 161-year jail term for revealing the corrupt culture and practices of the Australian Tax Office which destroyed the lives and livelihoods of innocent taxpayers?
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This law is about exerting social control over Australian adults, not about stopping illegal tobacco smugglers. Under current rules, customs already checks incoming packages for tobacco when they come through the mail, and Australians must pay the required duties to secure the product. The loss of this revenue stream only means more taxes levied on the rest of us to fund government waste and largesse.
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Jackie Trad says that she’s only driving Queensland deeper into debt to fund the infrastructure that Queenslanders need. Yet her government is simultaneously splashing $320,000 in taxpayers’ funds to fly in Al Gore to lecture Australians about opposing mining projects which are crucial to the state’s revenue base. She is clearly taking hardworking taxpayers for fools.
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The ATA successfully campaigned against Bill Shorten’s cruel and unjustified tax hikes of $387 billion, especially those on retirees and renters. Shadow Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers’ announcement today shows that Labor are finally changing tack and have listened to the concerns of ordinary taxpayers.
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Instead of spending the money on better public services or repairing Queensland’s fiscal balance, the Palaszczuk government have spent it on flying in a man who lives in a 20-room sprawling mansion that consumes over 20 times the energy of the average Australian household to lecture us on making sacrifices to save the planet.
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Richard Boyle is a hero for exposing the shameful standover tactics of the Australian Taxation Office at great professional and personal cost to himself.
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