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[Budget Forum 2020] Economic Stimulus through a Gender Lens: Why the Budget Did Not Deliver

Women have been highly critical of the male dominated focus of the 2020-21 Budget. Although the Budget Speech acknowledged that women were disproportionately affected by… Read More ›

How Equivalized Household Incomes Are Misinforming Tax and Transfer Policy

Studies seeking to measure inequality across households typically use a methodology which produces results that we argue are seriously misleading if they are intended to… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Progressivity and the Personal Income Tax Plan

Income tax progressivity has been an entrenched characteristic of Australia’s personal income tax system, meaning that the average rate of tax (the total tax paid… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Training Subsidies and Market Failures

The 2020-21 Commonwealth Budget contained several temporary subsidy schemes to increase the employment and workforce skills of young people. Schemes included the JobMaker Hiring Credit… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Getting Coherence into the Equity Debate – Part 3

In Parts 1 and 2, I used three desirable attributes (equity, efficiency and simplicity) of a coherent tax and transfer system to assess the 2020-21… Read More ›