Peter Varela

Dr Peter Varela is a Research Fellow at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute with a focus on the economics of migration and tax policy design. Prior to joining the TTPI, Peter has worked at the Australian Treasury, the Australian Productivity Commission and the Centre for International Economics.

Contact Details

Website : https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/dr-peter-varela


Articles

  • Australia’s Unjust, Unproductive and Unsustainable Intergenerational Tax and Transfer System, 05 Sep 2025
  • We Need Super, but We’re Taxing It the Wrong Way Round, 13 Aug 2020
  • Progressive in Theory, Regressive in Practice: That’s How We Tax Income From Savings, 20 Jul 2020
  • Should Indirect Tax Policy Ever be Concerned with Equity? – A Comment on the Policy Relevance of Atkinson-Stiglitz (1976), 05 Dec 2016
  • Notes from the IIPF Annual Congress, 14 Sep 2016
  • Brief: The Goods and Services Tax, 14 Sep 2016
  • Budget Forum 2016: Bracket Creep Response is Poorly Targeted, 06 May 2016

    • Briefs

  • Brief: Tax Salience, 07 Mar 2016
  • Brief: Progressive and Regressive Taxes, 24 Feb 2016
  • Brief: Progressive and Regressive Taxes, 09 Dec 2015