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9 mars 2015

Tax beats caps in uni fees market

HomeBy Andrew Trounson. LEVYING a tax on university fees is a better way to limit the risk of excessive price increases in a deregulated market compared with capping prices or loans, according to sector expert David Phillips.
Education Minister Christopher Pyne is understood to be giving serious consideration to proposals from Mr Phillips and economist Bruce Chapman to charge a progressive tax on university fee increases above set thresholds. The details of how such a system could work are likely to be included in submissions to the latest Senate inquiry into higher education.
The tax is aimed at addressing concerns that cheap HECS loans and status seeking could drive up fees excessively under deregulation. More...

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