What everybody has overlooked is the fact that all taxation entails the use of force by the government to steal personal property.

REAL tax reform simply requires the implementation of a basic Australian principle:

NO taxation WITH or WITHOUT representation, with any deficiency being made up by the sale of politicians assets.

Always bear in mind Christopher Fildes description of what happens when you give a government money.

"It's not a mystery what they will do with it, just a question of which wall they will choose"

I don't much care if Australia is low taxed relative to the OECD. It is still taxed too highly. It is also overtaxed relative to any point in our history (recent or otherwise). This is true if we look at tax relative to GDP and certainly true if we look at per capita tax revenue in real dollar terms.

If the Howard government returned overall real dollar tax revenue to the level it was at in 1996 then they could afford to abolish income tax entirely.

The reason why many focus on Income Tax is not because its high relative to other OECD nations. Its because income tax is the most unjust and invasive of taxes.

However in the post above RobertG really said all that needed to be said on this topic

We have to also look at serious reform in the Public Service.Even those who work in it think it is a joke.How do we stop the growth of Govt Depts? Bureaucrats can empire build thus increase their salaries almost with impunity.How do we make our Govts more accountable?There needs to be a mutual obligation of Govt taking and spending more responsibly.We've never had so much tax and our infrastructure is stuffed.More on this latter.Work time.

Putting productivity into our tax dollar.
The greatest waste of public money is through our public bureacrarcies.How do we break the mentality of "The Process being more important than the out comes"?
Well before "Yes Minister" people have lamented and laughed at this wasteful,stupid and illogical system.Bureaucrats get rewarded for being wasteful by creating guidelines and rules that protect their own self interest.Why not create a system that rewards them for efficiency and producing real outcomes?They have produced some much red tape in protecting their cosy system that they have tied themselves in knots,and are now doing likewise to private enterprise.
The legal system has them so scared of litigation,they are almost comatose with fear,hence new rules and regulation for all society that will eventually strangle our economy.
The struggle to get common sense and balance into our society is going to be very difficult,since many politicians are lawyers.

The wealth and efficiency created by science and technology is wasted by the self interest of do-gooders who are constantly selling us our rights.