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As the year 2019 comes to an end, the Austaxpolicy team would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our contributors and readers for your support and participation in debates about tax and transfer research and policy in Australia and around the globe.

This year is our fourth year of blogging and we are honoured to have continued support from seasoned academics, policy experts, and early career and young researchers in a wide range of tax, transfer and public finance issues. In 2019, we published 92 articles written by 113 experts across academia, government, and international organisations. We also posted 255 news pieces on the latest tax and transfer developments, including policy announcements, reports, research, opportunities and consultations.

More than 39,000 readers visited our blog during 2019 and we had more than 70,000 page views, an increase of 47% compared to 2018. This year we saw a doubling of Australian readership, likely due to the May 2019 Australian federal election, where taxes and transfers were a focus.

In 2019, we improved the design of the blog and we started to feature the ‘Tax Facts’ series of the ANU Tax and Transfer Policy Institute (TTPI). TTPI’s Tax Facts aim to provide a brief non-technical overview of tax and transfer policy issues.

We are taking our down-under summer break from publishing the blog from today. We will return with new energy and great new posts in February 2020. From now till then, you may pick up the articles you missed during the year, by searching for Topics or Authors, or just browsing the site. We have also compiled our top ten articles in 2019 and the top ten articles over the last three years (2017-2019) below.

All the best for a restful and peaceful holiday and a happy new year from the Austaxpolicy team!

 

From Mathias Sinning, Miranda Stewart, Sonali Walpola and Editorial Assistant Teck Chi Wong.

 

Top ten articles in 2019

  1. Increase in Newstart Allowance Long Overdue (31 January 2019), by John Hewson.
  2. Should We Tax Sugar — and If So, How? (17 June 2019), by Peter Lloyd and Donald MacLaren.
  3. [Budget Forum 2019] Tax Offsets and Equity in the Scheme for Taxing Resident Individuals (17 April 2019), by Sonali Walpola and Yuan Ping.
  4. Politics of Taxation in the Roman Empire (28 February 2019), by Sven Günther.
  5. ‘Crowding Out’ Evidence-Based Policy: The Case of Negative Gearing (24 January 2019), by Isla Pawson.
  6. [Budget Forum 2019] Coalition and Labor Voters Share Policy Priorities When They Are Informed About Inequality (11 April 2019), by Chris Hoy.
  7. [Budget Forum 2019] Tax Progressivity in Australia: Things Aren’t as Simple as They Seem (28 March 2019), by Chung Tran and Nabeeh Zakariyya.
  8. Better Targeting of Australia’s Age Pension (20 June 2019), by Michael Keane.
  9. Mind the (Tax) Gap—It’s Bigger Than You Probably Think! (5 February 2019), by Richard Highfield.
  10. The Optimal Way to Resolve Tax Treaty Disputes: Litigation or Arbitration? (13 March 2019), by Michelle Markham.

 

Top ten articles from 2017 to 2019

  1. The Impact of GST on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Owners in the Malaysian Retail Sector (13 March 2018), by Yong Mun Ching, Jeyapalan Kasipillai and Ashutosh Sarker.
  2. Means Testing Social Security: Income Versus Wealth (10 July 2017), by Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai.
  3. Pay Disclosure: Information Is Power for Employers and Empowers Employees (23 July 2018), by Kristen Sobeck and Robert Breunig.
  4. International Taxation in the Digital Economy: Challenge Accepted? (14 August 2017), by Marcel Olbert and Christoph Spengel.
  5. Increase in Newstart Allowance Long Overdue (31 January 2019), by John Hewson.
  6. Should We Tax Sugar — and If So, How? (17 June 2019), by Peter Lloyd and Donald MacLaren.
  7. Using New Zealand Trusts to Escape Other Countries’ Taxes (2 October 2017), by Michael Littlewood.
  8. [Budget Forum 2019] Tax Offsets and Equity in the Scheme for Taxing Resident Individuals (17 April 2019), by Sonali Walpola and Yuan Ping.
  9. Social Security and Robo-Debt (5 June 2018), by Terry Carney.
  10. Participatory Budgeting: The Next ‘Big Thing’ in Australian Local Government? (2 February 2017), by Helen Christensen and Bligh Grant.

Citation :

Sinning, Mathias,  Stewart, Miranda  & Walpola, Sonali, (2019),  Happy Holidays from Austaxpolicy,  Austaxpolicy: Tax and Transfer Policy Blog,  23 December 2019, Available from: https://www.austaxpolicy.com/happy-holidays-from-austaxpolicy-2/

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About the Author

Mathias Sinning

Mathias Sinning is an Associate Professor at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute of the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy. He is interested in the empirical analysis of issues related to labor economics, public economics and policy evaluation.


Miranda Stewart

Professor Miranda Stewart is a Fellow at Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, and a Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Miranda has 25 years of research, practical and leadership experience in taxation law and policy in academia, government and the private sector. She engages in research, policy advice and teaching across a wide range of tax policy and law design projects and sectors. Recent research addresses taxation of corporations; budget institutions; gender equality in the tax and transfer system; and resilience, legitimacy and effectiveness of tax systems and tax reform.


Sonali Walpola

Sonali completed a PhD at the ANU College of Law in 2015 and lectures in Commercial Law and Taxation Law at the ANU College of Business and Economics. Sonali's PhD thesis involved a historical and contemporary analysis of promissory liability in Anglo-Australian law. Sonali's research interests lie in Contract and Commercial Law, Tax Law and Policy, and the High Court of Australia's role in developing the common law. In the Tax Law and Policy area, Sonali is currently working on projects which examine income shifting by Australian multinational enterprises. Previously, Sonali worked as a solicitor in the Commercial Litigation and Taxation sections at Allens


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