Emilie Dye
Add up all the charges and fees, and the tax system’s not progressive
Australia has a habit of collecting new taxes without retiring old ones. As a consequence, once all the taxes on earnings, consumption...
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Emilie Dye
- Apr 26, 2021
- 4 min
The Cost of Tax — How much do you really pay?
The average Australian worker mostly notices tax when it comes out of their paychecks – every paystub shows the deductions for income tax...
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Emilie Dye
- Apr 26, 2021
- 3 min
How much do you really pay in tax?
Income tax is easy to calculate. But filing your taxes and sending your dues the ATO is only the beginning. Australians are taxed not only
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Emilie Dye
- Mar 10, 2021
- 3 min
An aged care levy would do more harm than good
Following the release of the report of the royal commission into aged care, to government has gotten too trigger happy for new taxes.
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Emilie Dye
- Dec 20, 2020
- 3 min
Santa Claws at your cash
The Australian government isn’t into the Christmas spirit, taking when all we want is the gift of a fair go.
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Emilie Dye
- Nov 24, 2020
- 2 min
NSW budget blazes the trail for post-covid economic reform
These historic changes will help millions of Australians achieve their financial goals.
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Emilie Dye
- Oct 20, 2020
- 4 min
Tax cuts don’t need to be pink to help women
With the announcement of the 2020/21 budget, the myth that the tax cuts are sexist has begun to circulate.
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Emilie Dye
- Sep 23, 2020
- 3 min
The government needs to wean itself off tobacco tax
Between 2018 and 2019, illicit tobacco sales jumped from 14.1 per cent to 20.7 per cent of all tobacco sales. The potential profits for sel
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Emilie Dye
- Mar 22, 2020
- 3 min
A taxpayer’s guide to the ScoMo stimulus
Yesterday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Treasurer Josh Frydenburg announced their $189 billion eight-plus point plan to stimulate the e
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Emilie Dye
- Feb 19, 2020
- 2 min
Time to drive the luxury car tax out of Australia
Liberals Tim Wilson, Craig Kelly, Jason Falinski and James Paterson are grinding Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s gears...
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Emilie Dye
- Jan 29, 2020
- 2 min
Pork barrelling just a sport for major parties
Am sick and tired of writing about sports rorts, but I actually value my responsibility to the taxpayers. Please, stop!
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Emilie Dye
- Dec 19, 2019
- 3 min
Why you’re probably paying more than 50 per cent of your income in tax
The government may not know how to build a working national broadband network, but they do know how to covertly collect ever more money...
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Emilie Dye
- Dec 4, 2019
- 1 min
An early Christmas present for business and taxpayers, a rude awakening for Sir Humphrey
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has given business and taxpayers an early Christmas present with today’s announcement of cuts to government wa
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Emilie Dye
- Jul 27, 2019
- 2 min
An end to parliamentary rorts in one easy step
This week, Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon passionately defended the $46,000 electoral allowance...
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Emilie Dye
- Jul 24, 2019
- 4 min
Many unhappy returns for hard working small business owners
Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump ratified the Taxpayers First Act after it passed with the support of both parties.
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Emilie Dye
- Jun 24, 2019
- 4 min
Want more women at the top? Don't overtax the ones already there
Instead of punishing hard working women who do well; we should reward them with a flatter and fairer tax system.
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