Why payroll tax is an idiot’s attack on general practice
Professor Max Kamien tells of his own failed attempt to escape the taxman's clutches
Of all the threats to the viability of GP practices, perhaps the most pointless are the demands by various states for payroll tax.
Their interest in the cash is premised on the argument that GPs are not independent contractors who bill their patients but employees being paid salaries, which is probably news to most doctors.
On Wednesday, we reported on a failed legal challenge lodged by a group of three GP practices against a $790,000 tax demand by the NSW Government which is currently expressing alarm at the state’s growing GP workforce crisis.
Professor Max Kamien, a GP in Perth, tells of his own failed attempt to escape the taxman’s irresistible clutches.
