Tax experts call on Commonwealth to back NSW stamp duty reform
Share
The federal government should offer financial incentives to state and territory treasurers to help scrap stamp duty, say tax experts, backing calls from the NSW Treasurer to help the state axe the tax.
Since political appetite for broadening the GST base and wholesale tax reform has evaporated, EY chief economist Jo Masters and University of Melbourne professor Miranda Stewart called on the federal government to support NSW’s difficult reform, which is designed to free up housing stock and boost economic activity.
“Stamp duty and payroll tax are some of the least efficient taxes that we have in our system, but very difficult and costly for states to reform,” Ms Masters told the Blueprint Institute’s event in a panel discussion on tax policy, moderated by
On Medicine
Screening for kidney cancer in Leeds
A new University of Cambridge-led study registered at the ISRCTN registry will investigate the feasibility of developing a full kidney cancer screening clinical trial.
SciePro / stock.adobe.com
Patients taking part in a pioneering lung screening program in Leeds will now have the option to be checked for kidney cancer thanks to additional funding from Yorkshire Cancer Research.
This study, led by Professor Grant Stewart, will investigate whether an extra scan for kidney cancer can be effectively introduced to mobile lung screening programs. The study follows Professor Stewart’s 2020
Around six in 10 people with kidney cancer do not experience symptoms, and they are often only diagnosed during tests for another condition or reason. This means over a third of patients are diagnosed at a late stage when the cancer is more difficult to treat. Just six in 10 patients with kidney cancer live for 5 years after diagnosis.
Student Hamish Howitt, 20, died after night out partying in Somerset, inquest heard
He was found dead at home the morning after
Updated
Hamish Howitt
A student may have died from a combination of drugs, booze and concussion after a night out partying in Somerset, an inquest has heard.
Hamish Howitt, 20, a Plymouth University student, was discovered dead in the morning after he was allegedly rugby tackled to the ground in a street fight the night before in Frome. His friends had helped him into bed at his accommodation in Frome after the altercation, but he was found dead in the early hours of July 1, 2016, Plymouth Live reports.
Labour law experts warn that the Morrison government’s industrial relations reforms threaten to tear a hole in the safety net, increase casualisation and worsen wage growth.
A small selection of the Hymag archive
Credit: Matt Benson
Scent creates the most acute kind of nostalgia and it is heavy in this former cannon factory in the south east London, close to the river. Inside I find Hymag, the world’s biggest collection of magazines according to the Guinness World Records, with over 150,000 magazines.
Hymag is open to visitors for a fee: to students, academics, magazine fanatics and brands, who use it, among other things, to research their own histories. (A representative of the House of Dior, for instance, is a regular visitor.) Hymag is in the process of digitalisation, to reach a wider audience and preserve the material which will, without intervention, eventually degrade.