Recent tax debates have focused on proposals to index personal income tax thresholds to inflation to eliminate bracket creep. The proposals come in response to… Read More ›
In Part 1, I examined the fiscal cost of indexing Australia’s personal income tax thresholds to inflation. In Part 2, I discuss its distributional impact.… Read More ›
With unemployment low and commodity prices favourable, the federal budget would already be in balance under prudent budget management, but that has been lacking for… Read More ›
As Australia’s population ages, the sustainability and fairness of the age pension system are increasingly important. Our research uses a statistical model to forecast demographic… Read More ›
At nearly 500 pages, Rick Morton’s Mean Streak provides a detailed account of the development and collapse of the robodebt scheme, which started in 2014… Read More ›
Before the budget the Australian Government announced a new program, Future Made in Australia. The program’s main objective is to provide substantial government financial assistance… Read More ›
After weeks of confected outrage from many parts of the media and Coalition, the Albanese government has moved on its proposed Stage 3 tax cuts… Read More ›
The distribution of GST revenues among the states and territories is, by a wide margin, the largest single expenditure item in the federal budget. Its… Read More ›
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