The ANU’s Peter Whiteford has debunked the view that Australia is a high taxing nation, nor that its personal income taxes are among the highest in the world.
According to Whiteford, Australia is the OECD’s 10th lowest taxing nation:
Whiteford also argues that Australia’s personal income tax take is distorted, since it does not include compulsory social security taxes, which are effectively raised like income taxes in other nations and “are very similar to income taxes”:
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