Responsibility, not legacy driving Chalmers to reform

If those who cannot remember the history are condemned to repeat it, Jim Chalmers has the chance to avoid the past traps of reformist treasures.

Dr Chalmers is called the most ambitious economic reform process by Paul Keating’s 1985 Tax Summit or Wayne Swan’s 2011 Tax Forum.

Mr. Keating’s summit led to an important reform on income taxes, while he buried the central policy, a large -based consumption tax like 15 years.

Mr. Swan’s attempt was even less.

History will continue as Dr Chalmers is preparing for its own economic reform round table, which works between Tuesday and Thursday in Canberra.

Meslakake knows the difference between the biography of Keating and the treasures that are remembered as great respected and treasures, as a former staff of Swan, and I want to be in the old group, I doubt it. ”

Dr Chalmers says he doesn’t see it with personal terms.

The Australian economy has taken very positive steps in recent years.

Last week, economic developments, with the fall of unemployment, supported that real wages were at the highest level of five years and the third interest rate decreased within six months.

However, global volatility required more economic flexibility, the country’s gloomy productivity performance withdrawn its living standards, and an increasing budget deficit threatened Australia’s future prosperity.

He sees the round table as the opportunity to reform the country, making Australians better.

“I feel that we all have the responsibility to use these impact positions to strengthen the economy to strengthen the economy, and indeed, we cannot meet the last decade as a country to waste the next decade,” he says.

“That’s why I feel this responsibility, but I don’t see it with personal terms.”

Already consultation is worth it.

“We shaken the tree for a lot of ideas, or he says.

“We have focused on our country’s attention, primarily productivity, our great economic difficulties, and we helped people understand the changes and difficulties that the government is struggling with.”

Dr Chalmers said he was optimistic that he will find a common ground in movements to eliminate unnecessary arrangements that prevent his productivity, housing supply and clean energy transition.

One example, the financial regulator ASIC’in Wednesday in a statement, RG 97 will review a regulation and super funds to report the wages in housing investments to review a stamp tax to review a regulation.

After a feedback from investors at a round table meeting to the Dr Chalmers Summit, ASIC has heard that lifting its housing investment could increase its housing investment by 8.7 billion dollars and buy 35,000 houses built by corporate investors over the next five years.

This is low -hanged fruit.

However, there are signs that the counting is forced to reduce its landscapes for large -scale tax reform as a more voter.

Dr Chalmers insists on what they sing from the same divine page of Prime Minister and Prime Minister Anthony Arnavutu.

However, Mr. Eslake believes that the ambition of the counting is hugging by the boss of the counting by the most stable advocate of any prime minister I can remember ”.

“These requests seem to have been shot by the prime minister, especially in the field of tax in the field of tax, that they will not do anything during the election campaign, or he says.

History shows that governments cannot force large, controversial tax reform without taking a task from voters.

However, Mr. Albania found himself with a thin majority in the first period, so he felt that he could only ask for a slight task in his second elections and limit his government to a small agenda on tax.

One of these policies, which reduces the tax concession for large pension accounts owners, has removed the Vial for the fact that the capital gains on assets pay taxes and increased value before being sold.

Mr. Eslake wants to see that the government uses the round table.

“When supporting the target, people with great super balances should pay more taxes, I certainly support it, I don’t like the idea of taxing unreakened gains, or he says.

“Sometimes voters ‘yes, I know that we have this idea, but we listened to people and we realized that it was not a good idea’ they will give credit to the state because they say.”

Dr Chalmers will listen to the concerns about politics, but regardless of his intention is to continue the legislation.

“I really have an approach to consulting, or he says.

“But more than two and a half years ago, we have explained that they haven’t heard of an idea about a better way.

While emphasizing that he does not want to prevent anything by managing any idea in advance or outside, he acknowledges that he will receive less support for some policies such as raising or expanding GST.

“Policy changes, which have the highest probability to bring and execute together, are consistent with the values and instructions of the government, D said Dr. Chalmers says.

The government consulted a wide range of reform ideas that pioneered the round table.

Approximately 900 applications were received, the ministers organized more than 40 round table meetings and the regulators offered 280 new ways to reduce the burden of bureaucracy.

Dr Chalmers invited Shadow Treasure Ted O’Brien to “in good faith ..

However, he is afraid that the coalition will be deliberately preventive, for the round table to fail and to cause political damage to the government.

“My choice will be constructive about this opportunity, or he says.

“Unfortunately, they do not show any signs yet.

Opposition leader Sussan Ley accused Dr Chalmers of choreography to force pre -determined policies following a leaked treasure certificate briefing about the potential consequences of the summit.

“He tells me that all this is a stitch,” he said on Thursday.

“At this round table meeting, this productivity is organizing an exercise about raising taxes.

“We will call him when we see it.”

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