Steps to make our tax system more equitable

IN THE next few weeks a large number of organisations will be announcing they have produced their “pre-budget submissions”.

The submissions are usually a discussion of what the Government should do, from the perspective of particular vested interests.

They are pretty much too late. The comprehensive spending review of the departments has been done, and the Government does not make its decisions on the broad scope of policy in the last couple of weeks before the budget. In any case, the Government is no longer in charge of anything other than the tactical implementation of an overall strategy dictated to us by the Troika.