The Australian government is considering two options to increase its revenue:
Option 1: Increase the company tax rate from 30% to 35%.
Option 2: Increase the excise tax on tobacco products by 20%.
Analyse the potential impacts of each option on the Australian economy, considering their effects on government revenue, resource allocation, and equity.
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The ability of the Australian economy to achieve its domestic macroeconomic goals has a significant effect on living standards in Australia. Policymakers, including the Australian Government and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), can utilise a wide range of policy instruments to affect these goals and to affect living standards. This unit focuses on the role of aggregate demand policies in stabilising the business cycle to achieve the domestic macroeconomic goals. Students develop an understanding of how the Australian Government can alter the composition of budgetary outlays and receipts to directly and indirectly affect the level of aggregate demand, the achievement of domestic macroeconomic goals and living standards. Students also examine the role of the RBA with a focus on its responsibility to conduct monetary policy. Students consider how the tools of monetary policy can affect interest rates, the transmission mechanism of monetary policy to the economy and how this contributes towards the achievement of the domestic macroeconomic goals and living standards. Students consider and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the aggregate demand policies in achieving the domestic macroeconomic goals and living standards. Expanding the productive capacity of the economy and improving Australia’s international competitiveness is critical to ensuring that economic growth, low inflation and employment opportunities can be maintained both now and into the future. Students consider how the Australian Government utilises selected aggregate supply policies to pursue the achievement of the domestic macroeconomic goals and living standards over the long term.
In this area of study students examine how the RBA and the Australian Government can utilise monetary and budgetary policy respectively to affect the level of aggregate demand in the economy. Students discuss the operation of aggregate demand policies, and analyse how current aggregate demand policy settings are intended to effect the achievement of the domestic macroeconomic goals and influence living standards. Students analyse the relative strengths and weaknesses of the policies in influencing the domestic macroeconomic goals and living standards.
sources of government revenue, including direct and indirect taxation; progressive, regressive and proportional taxes; and revenue from government businesses and the sale of government assets
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