{"id":648078,"date":"2026-05-04T02:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648078\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:06:13","slug":"is-australia-really-a-low-taxing-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648078\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Australia really a low-taxing country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left-leaning outfits like The Australia Institute have for years argued that Australia is a low-taxing country (for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/australiainstitute.org.au\/post\/australia-is-a-low-tax-country\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/australiainstitute.org.au\/post\/australia-is-a-low-tax-country-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Robert Carling from the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cis.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP105-High-taxing-Australia.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">challenged<\/a> this view, arguing that the low-taxing claim is misleading and based on flawed comparisons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tax-to-GDP-with-super-contributions.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"419\" alt=\"Tax-to-GDP with super\"\/><\/p>\n<p>When measured properly, Australia\u2019s tax burden is not low\u2014it is around 34\u201336% of the economy\u2019s effective tax base, placing Australia around the middle or above average among comparable developed countries, according to Carling.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Left-leaning outfits like The Australia Institute have for years argued that Australia is a low-taxing country (for example,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-648078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}