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Tax concessions in most cases are lobbied for and granted to rent-seekers. If you wanted to get serious about granting tax concessions to groups, thenyou would impose a cost/benefit test on them to keep it honest, as there's many concessions in the system that aren't benefiting taxpayers...

Hopefully at some point the government will look outside welfare spending and start looking at tax concessions/expenditures that have piled up over the years. From memory we have amongst the highest (if not the highest) amounts of tax expenditures as a % of GDP in the OECD, and they're growing...