So, apparently we're having a national conversation about tax reform. Governments do this every so often. It used to be called "consultation". Such a "conversation" sounds like a really good idea. I imagine that we would get tax experts to analyse our tax system and tell us how it is going now, what's good and bad about it and what options there are for us to improve it. We could then get non-experts to translate this into terms ordinary people could understand, and there could be various ways for people to have input - web forums, face to face meetings, formal submission processes. Then the government would narrow this down to its preferred options and see what reaction they get, before modifying and implementing. Of course I have a fertile imagination. Actually it's nothing like that. Not that some people don't try. The current government released a Tax White Paper last year called "Re:Think" and there are various plain-Engl
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