Fiscal Policy



In last year’s Budget Forum, I forecast that excessive fiscal stimulus during COVID would lead to an outbreak of inflation and called for tighter fiscal… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2023: Inflation Forecast, Fiscal Policy and Personal Income Tax Rates

On Budget night, Treasurer Jim Chalmers claimed that the Government’s measures would reduce inflation. Budget Paper No. 1 also makes the following claim about the… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2023: Will the Budget Reduce Inflation?

Globally, there has been a revival of the social contract in both domestic and international fiscal matters. This is not surprising given the ongoing financial… Read More ›

A Fiscal Exploration of the Social Contract in Times of Crisis – Financially Sound or Unfair to the Taxpayers?

With all the talk of restraint and fiscal responsibility, you may have missed that this was also Australia’s first wellbeing budget. Measuring wellbeing reflects a… Read More ›

[October Budget 2022] Australia’s First Wellbeing Budget Leaves People Behind

Australia has now formalised its Paris Agreement commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 43 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 to reach net… Read More ›

[October Budget 2022] Demand-Side Climate Related Measures

Health risk is difficult to insure via private insurance markets. Information asymmetries between buyers and sellers of private insurance plans cause adverse selection and moral… Read More ›

US Health Insurance: Are There Better Ways to Insure Americans?

The report “Business Fleets and EVs: Taxation Changes to support home charging from the grid” released by the Reliable Affordable Clean Energy Centre (RACE for… Read More ›

Business Fleets and Electric Vehicles: Taxation Changes to Support Home Charging From the Grid and Affordability

In an era when big-bang tax reform is off the table, a coherent set of smaller reforms can contribute to budget repair while shoring up… Read More ›

Why the Stage Three Tax Cuts Should Be Replaced

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