Home / Research / Using cheap private health insurance to avoid the Medicare Levy Surcharge: What is the cost to taxpayers? Using cheap private health insurance to avoid the Medicare Levy Surcharge: What is the cost to taxpayers? Andrew Macintosh Resources Media Release $20 million Medicare Levy Surcharge tax scam Full report WP105_8 Published July 24, 2007 / 19 years ago Topics EconomicsLaw, Society & Culture Tags HealthTax, Spending & the Budget Share Copy link Share Related Resources April 30, 2026 Second-class citizens — The rural health divide A submission to the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee’s Inquiry into rural, regional and remote Medicare access and funding by Hamdi Jama, Jack Thrower and Morgan Harrington September 11, 2026 Submission to the Inquiry on the Private Health Insurance Amendment (Modernising the Private Health Insurance Rebate) Bill 2026 This submission supports removing the additional age-based private health insurance (PHI) rebate. The reduction in insurance coverage is expected to be modest, and is... by Luke Slawomirski and Morgan Harrington August 1, 2001 The Medicare levy surcharge arrangement: Tax penalty or hidden tax subsidy? This study considers the rationale for estimating tax expenditures, and the conceptual basis for measurement. It assesses the current approach to accounting for the... by Julie Smith
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