CATHOLIC Welfare Australia (CWA) is backing moves to address taxation burdens on the poor and to boost employment rates.
CWA was responding to the tabling of the report ‘Working for Australia’s Future: Increasing Participation in the Workforce’ in Federal Parliament on March 14.
The organisation called on the Government to address high effective marginal tax rates for the poor and national co-ordination of strategies to increase workforce participation as its highest priorities.
CWA said strategies for increasing workforce participation should include implementing agreed national definitions for employment and workforce participation and better integration across existing employment programs.
CWA executive director Frank Quinlan commended the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Workplace Relations and Workplace Participation for its analysis of the challenge of increasing workforce participation, and for the range of recommendations in the report.
Quinlan said a review and overhaul of the taxation system was long overdue.
