CANBERRA: Australia's six states and two territories would receive an extra A$3bil over five years from a national goods and services tax (GST), Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday.
“It is in large measure a product of a booming economy, it's not a product of higher tax rates ... courtesy of the GST the states are rolling in money,” Howard told Australian radio.
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