Family First Senator Steve Fielding sided with the Coalition in the Senate a short time ago to vote down the bill at the second reading. Earlier, Senator Fielding, who effectively enjoys the "power of ...

A NEW plan to fix Australia’s budget woes could see Australians slugged an extra $900 a year whether they like it or not. The extra levy would come on top of already expensive private health insurance ...

All high-income Australians would pay the 1 to 1.5 per cent Medicare levy surcharge under a budget proposal that would raise a breathtaking $4 billion per year, more than six times the net amount ...

THE Gillard government's proposed 0.5 per cent Medicare levy rise to fund the NDIS will be the single biggest increase since it was introduced in 1984. It will lift the levy from 1.5 per cent to 2 per ...

Australia's Medicare levy is riddled with loopholes and should climb with income, as do tax rates, according to a Council of Social Service position paper to be released as the Senate decides whether ...

Australians have just hours left to settle their tax debts with the Australian Taxation Office or face an automatic 10 per ...