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The Pocket Guide to the Australian Tax System According to the tax mix pie chart (pp. 5-6), "Company and petroleum resource rent taxes" were estimated to bring in $76.4 billion in taxes in 2008/09 - or ~24% of the total tax take of the Federal Government Unfortunately the analysis doesn't...

One last extreme opinion passed off as fact. Oh, the encore! Kylie is perfect, how dare you spread such lies about her.

Well the issue I have always had with Sunfish (or Thommo / RichardC) is that he is what I call an outlier. By that I mean he is prone to extreme views on things. Now, there's nothing wrong with diversity and everyone is entitled to their opinion, but the nature outliers is that they tend to...

I'm with MW on this one. The commodities boom has been great for GDP and especially for WA and to a lesser extent Qld, but I don't see how it has done much for the rest of Australia (ergo, I can't see NSW and Vic suffering much from any slowdown). Also, what I am hearing is that the...

Yeah, still in NZ. Personally, I think the recession is being overplayed a bit too much by some people (lots of economic hypochondria / little actual pain), but it is all about confidence (as it is anywhere). NZ was hit pretty bad with it's own sub-prime crisis (25+ finance companies...

Thommo joined on 14 January 2004.

Newbies don't know that. As boring as listening to the same habitually negative swipe at property post after post after post after post... ??

I noticed this one recently too... Is Sunfish having an "out-of-asset-class" experience, perhaps? :rolleyes: But, then, he's always been like that.