Why the government will be sending more GST funding to Western Australia
- Written by: John Freebairn, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
If the Commonwealth government’s proposed reforms for the distribution of the GST revenue between the States and Territories is implemented, about a billion dollars a year of additional commonwealth funds will be spent to ensure “no state will be worse off”. But where the extra funds will come from is left to the imagination.
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