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Stamp duty is a significant component of the Australian taxation system. It accounts for around 20 per cent of state governments’ own-source revenue. At the… Read More ›

The Undesirable Vertical and Horizontal Inequity Effects of Stamp Duty

‘The Australian retirement income system is effective, sound and its costs are broadly sustainable’ according to the Retirement Income Review chaired by Mike Callaghan. While… Read More ›

Is Australia’s Retirement Income System Delivering on Its Potential?

For taking our nation’s most significant step to date in the shift from stamp duty to “property tax”, NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet is to be… Read More ›

NSW’s Brave Stamp Duty Switch Should Be Even Bolder

Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of government in our country over the last several decades has been how politics has been increasingly short-term in its… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] It’s Time to Meet Key Social Policy Challenges in COVID Recovery

Scott Morrison got a bit tetchy at a press conference last week when asked about the reform inspiration that Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was drawing from… Read More ›

Advance Australia Fair? To Recover From COVID, Reset Social Policy

Replacing the current stamp duty or conveyance duty on the transfer of property and the narrow base land tax with an annual property tax would… Read More ›

Reforming State Property Taxes

In the broad-based consumption tax system known as a value-added tax or goods and services tax (GST), the treatment of residential premises in practice is… Read More ›

Including Resales of Residential Premises in the GST Base

There has been much debate in New Zealand concerning the need for a separate and comprehensive capital gains tax (CGT) – a debate that was… Read More ›

The Tax Working Group and Capital Gains Tax in New Zealand — A Missed Opportunity?

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