Miranda Stewart

Professor Miranda Stewart is a Fellow at Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, and a Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Miranda has 25 years of research, practical and leadership experience in taxation law and policy in academia, government and the private sector. She engages in research, policy advice and teaching across a wide range of tax policy and law design projects and sectors. Recent research addresses taxation of corporations; budget institutions; gender equality in the tax and transfer system; and resilience, legitimacy and effectiveness of tax systems and tax reform.

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Website : https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/academic/miranda-stewart


  • Budget Forum 2023: The Costly and Unfair Stage 3 Tax Cuts Will Undermine the Progressive Income Tax and Worsen Inequality, 24 May 2023
  • Happy Holidays from Austaxpolicy, 16 Dec 2022
  • Why the Stage Three Tax Cuts Should Be Replaced, 22 Aug 2022
  • If Governments Were Really Concerned About Tax and the Cost of Living They Would Cut the Cost of Childcare, 16 May 2022
  • [Budget Forum 2022] For Social Infrastructure and Tax Reform, We Need a New Federal Fiscal Bargain, 29 Mar 2022
  • Happy Holidays from Austaxpolicy, 20 Dec 2021
  • Accounting for Care: The Intergenerational Report Fails to Value Parenting, 23 Jul 2021
  • A COVID-19 Check for the Budget System, 06 Jul 2021
  • [Budget Forum 2021] Structural Changes, but No Sustainability Reset, 13 May 2021
  • How Can We Compare Tax Systems?, 17 Dec 2020
  • Happy Holidays from Austaxpolicy, 17 Dec 2020
  • [Budget Forum 2020] Blink and You’ll Miss It: What the Budget Did for Working Mums, 30 Oct 2020
  • Australia Needs a Sustainable Green Approach to Tax Reform, 04 Jun 2020
  • Open Budgets in the Time of COVID-19, 30 Apr 2020
  • The Government’s Fiscal Tool Kit for COVID-19, 07 Apr 2020
  • Happy Holidays from Austaxpolicy, 23 Dec 2019
  • Tax Policy Is Doing Too Little to Help the Squeezed Middle, 23 May 2019
  • New Figures Put It Beyond Doubt. When It Comes to Company Tax, We Are a High-Tax Country, in Part Because It Works Well for Us, 21 Jan 2019
  • Happy Holidays from Austaxpolicy, 23 Dec 2018
  • It’s Not Just Newstart. Single Parents Are $271 per Fortnight Worse Off. Labor Needs an Overarching Welfare Review, 05 Dec 2018
  • Seeking Sanity on GST Sanitary Tax Debate, 09 Oct 2018
  • Mothers Have Little to Show for Extra Days of Work Under New Tax Changes, 21 Jun 2018
  • Budget Forum 2018: Tax Caps and Tax Cuts: Good for Australia?, 14 May 2018
  • Open Budget Survey 2017 Part 2: What Can Australia Do to Improve Our Budget Process?, 02 May 2018
  • Open Budget Survey 2017 Part 1: How Transparent is the Australian Budget?, 20 Mar 2018
  • How the Government Can Pay for Its Proposed Company Tax Cuts, 09 Mar 2018
  • Happy Holidays from Austaxpolicy, 14 Dec 2017
  • New Approaches to Tax and Welfare in Australia and Korea, 13 Dec 2017
  • New Tax Treaty Will Close Loopholes That Allow Multinationals to Avoid Tax, 16 Jun 2017
  • Budget Forum 2017/Women in Economics: Tax, Transfers and Budget Fairness, 30 May 2017
  • Budget Forum 2017: Bank Levy – A Tax in Search of a Rationale, 12 May 2017
  • Does It Pay to Work? – The Case of a Single Parent with 4 Children, 24 Jan 2017
  • Gender Neutral Policies are a Myth: Why We Need a Women’s Budget, 15 Sep 2016
  • Brief: The Goods and Services Tax, 14 Sep 2016
  • The Contradictions of International Tax, 11 Aug 2016
  • Election 2016: Tax Policies of the Major Parties Part II, 02 Jul 2016
  • Election 2016: Tax Policies of the Major Parties Part I, 02 Jul 2016
  • Income Tax at 100 Years: A Little History, 06 Jun 2016
  • Budget Forum 2016: What’s Not in the Budget, Tax Reform to Broaden the Income Tax Base, 04 May 2016
  • Ideas for Australia: Five Ideas to Help fix Australia’s Tax System, 26 Apr 2016
  • Tax White Paper: Our Pension is Too Mean, Our Super Tax Concessions Too Generous, 21 Jan 2016
  • Merry Christmas from Austaxpolicy, 21 Dec 2015
  • An Interview with the Office for Tax Simplification, 10 Dec 2015
  • Welcome to Austaxpolicy, 10 Dec 2015
  • Budget Transparency: The Open Budget Survey 2017 – Part 2, 19 Oct 2018
  • Budget Transparency: The Open Budget Survey 2017 – Part 1, 19 Oct 2018
  • Personal Income Tax Cuts and the New Child Care Subsidy: Do They Address High Effective Marginal Tax Rates on Women’s Work? – Part 2, 05 Oct 2018
  • Personal Income Tax Cuts and the New Child Care Subsidy: Do They Address High Effective Marginal Tax Rates on Women’s Work? – Part 1, 05 Oct 2018