Working Australians pay tax in real-time – now the richest Australians making capital gains should too
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
In drawing up his plans to more effectively tax large superannuation accounts, Treasurer Jim Chalmers might have stumbled upon a really good idea.
If applied more broadly, it could at last tax rich Australians in something like the same way as the rest of us.
The wealthiest Australians are taxed differently from other Australians, because they earn...