Comments on: K Rudd magic & why the mining super-profits tax is a superannuation tax http://www.selfmanagedsuperfund.com/k-rudd-magic-why-the-mining-super-profits-tax-is-a-superannuation-tax/252/ The fee-free plain English approach that we couldn't find so had to write Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:53:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DifferentPerspective http://www.selfmanagedsuperfund.com/k-rudd-magic-why-the-mining-super-profits-tax-is-a-superannuation-tax/252/comment-page-1/#comment-612 DifferentPerspective Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:51:09 +0000 http://www.selfmanagedsuperfund.com/?p=252#comment-612 We should have had this mining tax in it's full glory. Look at what has happened, they couldn't get the revenue from the RSPT so they turned to individual taxpayers instead. The RSPT fear campaign was nonsense. All the mining projects they supposedly "shelved" were never shelved at all. It was just a bluff. Australia has missed a great opportunity to spread the benefits of the resources boom around the nation. We should have had this mining tax in it’s full glory. Look at what has happened, they couldn’t get the revenue from the RSPT so they turned to individual taxpayers instead.

The RSPT fear campaign was nonsense. All the mining projects they supposedly “shelved” were never shelved at all. It was just a bluff.

Australia has missed a great opportunity to spread the benefits of the resources boom around the nation.

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