Progressivity



This post is the third of a four-part series on the topic. The existence and the extent of “zero net taxpayers” is a reflection of… Read More ›

Zero Net Taxpayers: How Does Australia Compare?

This post is the second of a four-part series on the topic. If we turn to the policy or academic literature, we find that in… Read More ›

A Related Concept: Net Tax Thresholds

In recent decades, income inequality has increased in many developed countries. Although fiscal policies are the main tools available to policymakers to address widening inequality,… Read More ›

Australian Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality: Recent Trends

An Effective Marginal Tax Rate (EMTR) measures the loss resulting from income taxation combined with the withdrawal of a cash transfer or welfare benefit, applied… Read More ›

Effective Marginal Tax Rates: Part 1

Prior to the election Labor announced that if elected the party would put in place a new and quite different set of arrangements for the collection… Read More ›

Justice in the Collection of Fines

The original version of this note was posted on David’s blog at on 13 May 2016 Carbon price compensation was introduced in a range of… Read More ›

Malice or Misunderstanding? Government’s Carbon Price Under-Compensation

On budget night, we heard that there is going to be an adjustment to the third income tax threshold, so that the 37 per cent… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2016: Bracket Creep Response is Poorly Targeted

The latest ANUpoll shows that people would prefer the government to tax their way out of deficit rather than to reduce spending on social services.… Read More ›

ANUpoll: Government’s Deficit Dilemma with a Confused Electorate

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