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Thomas Walker

Thomas Walker

Thomas Walker is the CEO of Think Forward, an economics think tank run by younger Australians.

Instead of wringing their hands on the sidelines, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers should be reforming our tax system.

Labor must fix our tax system. Anything less is economic destruction

The spending and accumulation of Australia’s asset-rich owners is counteracting the belt-tightening of earners – and there’s only one way to fix it.

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Unfair tax breaks such as the capital gains concessions are robbing young Australians of their chance to buy a home.

If Labor really cared about our future, these tax breaks must go

If you’re buying your fourth investment property, you’re a true-blue Aussie. But a student receiving rent assistance? You’re a fiscal burden.

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We’ve worked hard, got an education, found jobs. But it’s not enough

The social contract - the idea that a job is enough to feed and house a family - has been lost.

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Most people sit on the assets they had at the point of retirement.

The myth of the self-funded retiree: Why we need urgent tax reform

What many wealthy Australians don’t seem to realise is that their wealth has grown with considerable taxpayer support – over $100 billion to be exact.

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The Bank of Mum and Dad is now one of the nation’s largest lenders, with many young people reliant on their parents if they want to become homeowners.

Inheritances are destroying the ‘fair go’. It’s time to tax them

We’re in the middle of the largest intergenerational wealth transfer ever, and it’s beginning to tear at our nation’s social fabric.

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