Tax is the answer; media’s great extinction deb(AI)t; and the Unmade Index rebounds
Welcome to a Tuesday update from Unmade
Today, we reveal the lineup for The Great DebAIt, where the inventor of The Newspaper Extinction Timeline will take to the stage to argue that AI is not media’s extinction level event.
And below the paywall, in our members-only content, we make the case that the real question on the digital platforms isn’t whether they pay for news, it’s why they aren’t being made to pay more local tax. Plus, the Unmade Index bounces back.
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Well put, Tim. Tax avoidance may be legitimate from a legal perspective, but is grossly immoral and it is the responsibility of government to tackle it head on.
Money taken out of Australia by such schemes denies us the revenues we need to rebalance our economic for the challenges ahead and fund much-needed investment in the social good. We have been mugs for far too long.
I get that you want to keep to your wheelhouse with this piece, but platforms are the thin end of the wedge. Just to name a few, certain large media owners, all multinational resource extractors and Tasmanian aquaculture producers are notorious tax ‘minimisers’ (ie avoiders). When the government receives more revenue from HECS than it does from the PRRT, you know the system is rotten.