Tax Rebate for Holidays

[kamchatsky]

Must be election time. Now tax rebate for holidays is even considered!

Great for OzFests!

Plan for Australians to receive tax rebate for local holidays | News.com.au

 

[medhead]

They're all stupid. The tax system is stuffed. The inconsistencies are unfairness for 2 people who could be doing the same thing but with slightly different circumstances are glaring. And they come up with this rubbish.

Why not abolish all deductions rebates, tax returns etc and then just charge a flat 15% tax.

 

[Mal]

And of course it's mooted by our lovely local tourism industry.

Mr Calderwood said for the first time more Australians were leaving Australia to take holidays than there were international visitors coming here.

Now. For the brainboxes who run various Tourism bodies ... why do you think that is? ... You're paid huge amounts to try and work that out, so I won't give you the answer. But I suggest you analyse Cairns closely, and even follow a typical Aussie tourist up there and work out how much it costs, where they spend money etc. Then follow the same tourist to another overseas destination like Bali, coughet or countless others and work out how much it costs.

 

[serfty]

... Why not abolish all deductions rebates, tax returns etc and then just charge a flat 15% tax.

That would put a stack of accountants out of work! :shock:

 

[medhead]

That would put a stack of accountants out of work! :shock:

Yeah, sorry to all the accountants.

I just have bad experiences with accountants. Getting charged the earth to basically do all the work myself besides entering it on the form and they still made mistakes. Tried one again this year. Promised the world but turns out different and still they have left off other things.

Basically easier and quicker for me to do it myself

 

[drron]

They're all stupid. The tax system is stuffed. The inconsistencies are unfairness for 2 people who could be doing the same thing but with slightly different circumstances are glaring. And they come up with this rubbish.

Why not abolish all deductions rebates, tax returns etc and then just charge a flat 15% tax.

On a roll.Another thing we agree on.Wouldn't even complain with 17% that was the HKG rate.
Sorry about the accountants but their plight doesn't worry me.

 

[medhead]

On a roll.Another thing we agree on.Wouldn't even complain with 17% that was the HKG rate.
Sorry about the accountants but their plight doesn't worry me.

We probably agree on a lot of things. Just I don't always let on. As that would just spoil the fun.

 

[drron]

We probably agree on a lot of things. Just I don't always let on. As that would just spoil the fun.

Nothing like a good argument.apart from a good holiday

 

[UP4014]

They're all stupid. The tax system is stuffed. The inconsistencies are unfairness for 2 people who could be doing the same thing but with slightly different circumstances are glaring. And they come up with this rubbish.

Why not abolish all deductions rebates, tax returns etc and then just charge a flat 15% tax.

Agree on the stupid bit.

Not so sure the 15% would work across the board.

 

[docjames]

apart from a good holiday

Particularly if it's given a "tax rebate".

 

[markis10]

I think we should follow the lead from Monaco on the tax issue, after all their main source of income is tourism!

 

[medhead]

Not so sure the 15% would work across the board.

I was just making that number up.
I guess the current average effective tax rate is probably around 30%. a flat tax would save a fair bit from reduced government administration in tax, family assistance and maybe some other areas. So the need to collect tax might be reduced say 5% to 10%. Maybe also an increased tax take would equal another 5% to 10% reduction. so that was the guess to maintain the same equivalent tax take.

Of course all the public servants would then be on the dole......:shock:

 

[serfty]

...
Of course all the public servants would then be on the dole......:shock:

So who's gunna manage/operate the "Dole"? - Redeployed accountants perhaps?

 

[kpc]

And of course it's mooted by our lovely local tourism industry.



Now. For the brainboxes who run various Tourism bodies ... why do you think that is? ... You're paid huge amounts to try and work that out, so I won't give you the answer. But I suggest you analyse Cairns closely, and even follow a typical Aussie tourist up there and work out how much it costs, where they spend money etc. Then follow the same tourist to another overseas destination like Bali, coughet or countless others and work out how much it costs.

Recent trip to coughet...2x 1 hour massages, 3 course Thai dinner for 2.....total cost? < AUD$50.

Grand Suite at 5* hotel in Bangkok incl breakfast, club access, including free WiFi, evening canapes and alcohol, 4 pieces laundry...AUD$131 per night.

Enough said:idea:

 

[anat0l]

Of all the half baked ideas that the pencil pushers could possibly wheel out, this one ranks between idiotic and <insert phrase here cursing the very existence of Bill Calderwood>.

Sadly enough, he's a Queenslander, whose officials have been the centre of several faux pax over the last couple of years (I'm thinking about the mayor of Mt Isa...)

We need to help the tourism industry? Please, this is getting desperate, hopeless and ... gah, why do I both with such descriptions, let me use a simple word: STUPID:!:

Perhaps the domestic tourism industry is cursed by the lower prices of its neighbours and just can't lower its prices to a sustainable level so that it may compete with them. Is that the problem, or is domestic tourism genuinely too expensive for its own good? Even if the 'curse' were true, instigating a tax rebate is not the way to solve the problem.

 

[drron]

So who's gunna manage/operate the "Dole"? - Redeployed accountants perhaps?

Magnificent suggestion.