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Re: State Rail - No, State Joke. [NSW]
- Subject: Re: State Rail - No, State Joke. [NSW]
- From: Dave Proctor <david@sd3.mailbank.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 10:04:05 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
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On 1 Jun 2001 02:38:37 -0700, bscaro@yahoo.com (Ben Scaro) wrote:
>I don't think there is anything preventing a State government
>introducing an income tax. Existing income taxes were ceded to the
>Commonwealth for the duration of the war and not given back- not sure
>why. But I don't think there is any *legal* impediment to a State
>govt introducing a new state income tax. The fact that it would be
>political suicide is another matter.
I do not know of any mechanism to cede a power from the Commonwealth
back to the states, once the states have ceded that power to the
Commonwealth
>I am sure there are ways such a tax could be raised, and it would
>certainly be better, simpler and more of an encouragement to use the
>system than what prevails currently.
Probably.
Dave