Modern Australian

do we need company tax cuts?

  • Written by Janine Dixon, Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University

In this series - Budget policy checks - we look at the government’s justifications for policies likely to be in this year’s budget and measure them up against the evidence.

In this piece we look at the need for company tax cuts.


Business investment in Australia declined steadily for four years after peaking in 2013. In early 2016, the...