Jim Chalmers’ economic roundtable is morphing into a forum to prosecute higher taxes on wealth and big business, after the treasurer hand-picked speakers who have backed increased taxes on superannuation, capital gains and trusts to pay for surging government spending.

Chalmers on Friday published details of the August 19-21 roundtable agenda, which will comprise three broad topics: resilience; productivity; and budget sustainability and tax reform.

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