Efficiency



“Relative to other similar size OECD countries, Australia’s company income tax rate is high … Australia should respond to these developments by reducing the company… Read More ›

Are Tax Cuts Just Not Cutting It? Improving the Efficiency of the Corporate Tax System

The global economy has emerged from a multi-year convalescence, but maintaining the momentum will require sustained investment growth. In fast-growing Asia, gross capital formation remained… Read More ›

Does Taxation Stifle Corporate Investment? Firm-Level Evidence from ASEAN Countries

Public expenditure effectiveness is hard to capture, either by using expenditure tracking exercises or through econometric analysis. The accountability of public expenditure—linking “resources to results”—has… Read More ›

Gender Budgeting as Accountability Initiative: Public Expenditure Effectiveness on Fiscal Space and Gender Equality

Japan is one of the world’s largest agro-food importing countries and provides significant support to its producers. According to the OECD Agricultural support (indicator), the… Read More ›

The Welfare Effects of a Partial Tariff Reduction under Domestic Distortion in Japan

In Budget 2017-18, the Government continues to propose its Enterprise Tax Plan, in which it argues that economic growth will be supported if we cut… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2017: The Excess Burden of Company Tax

The famous 1976 paper by Anthony Atkinson and Joseph Stiglitz achieves an elusive goal. It provides a policy relevant result in a general framework that… Read More ›

Should Indirect Tax Policy Ever be Concerned with Equity? – A Comment on the Policy Relevance of Atkinson-Stiglitz (1976)

Most people don’t like paying tax. Nor do people like paying more tax than they do currently. Recent global media attention has focused especially on… Read More ›

We Need to Know more About Taxpayer Responses to Tax Changes: The New Zealand Perspective

Corporate income tax in Australia in 2014-15 collected $67.7 billion, or 15.2 per cent of all tax revenue and 4.2 per cent of gross domestic… Read More ›

Who Benefits from a Lower Corporate Income Tax Rate?

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