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Post-coronavirus, we'll need a working tax system, not more taxes and not higher rates

  • Written by: Neil Warren, Emeritus Professor of Taxation, UNSW
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr famously observed in 1927 that “taxes are what we pay for civilised society, including the chance to insure”.

Whilst tax as a price for civilised society is well understood, less appreciated is the second part of his observation – that tax provides a chance to insure against a crisis.

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