Y2K+10 – Happy new year!

It promises to be an interesting one. On the tax front, the Henry Review has been delivered to the Treasurer. It will be made public sometime in the early part of the year. Don’t expect anything too exciting, though: there may be some recommendations for changes to the way tax is collected, but the overall tax take will not be decreased. The geese are not yet hissing (to borrow from Jean Baptiste Colbert).

The drums of Dubai will continue to beat. The enormous debt burden of this monument to excess sent a minor shudder through the