AUSTRALIAN TAXATION
COMMONWEALTH AND STATES CANBERRA, January 22. Because its responsibilities have increased enormously since pre-war years, and expenditure in proportion, the Commonwealth Government will require rates of income tax much higher than those collected before the war. This indication that it is futile to hope for a return to pre-war taxation levels was given to the Premiers' Conference to-day by the Prime Minister, (Mr Chifley, when he outlined the Commonwealth case for the retention of uniform taxation.
The fact that State Premiers do not agree to the retention by the Commonwealth of control of income taxation was made clear in a motion which the New South Wales Premier, Mr W. J. McKell, submitted on behalf of the Premiers. The motion expressed the unanimous opposition of the States to any system involving the payment of grants by the Commonwealth to the States in place of State income tax. It is suggested that a system of Commonwealth and State taxation could be devised which would preserve the advantages to the taxpayers of the war-time system without depriving the States of direct control of their financial policy.
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Evening Star, Issue 25698, 23 January 1946, Page 10
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185AUSTRALIAN TAXATION Evening Star, Issue 25698, 23 January 1946, Page 10
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