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Season’s Greetings!
As the holiday season approaches, the Austaxpolicy editorial team would like to extend thanks to all our readers and contributors for the support and contributions that enable Austaxpolicy to succeed in its mission of disseminating tax and transfer policy research for the public benefit. We wish you all a safe and joyful end to 2025 and a happy new year.
Over the course of 2025, Austaxpolicy published a wide range of important articles on tax and transfer policy, informed by cutting-edge research methods and the latest academic research across multiple disciplines, including taxation law, economics, and public policy. We published 78 articles in total—our summary pieces of published articles in leading journals and significant working papers, as well as our impactful Budget Forum articles. Our large readership in Australasia and abroad continues to grow, with high numbers of visitors from Asia, including China and Singapore.
This year, we bid farewell to Teck Chi Wong and thank him for his outstanding service to Austaxpolicy over the past eight years. We look forward to recommencing in February 2026, and warmly encourage you to connect with us to share your research in the tax and transfer policy arena.
Sonali Walpola, Yuan Ping, John Minas, Todd Morris, Claudio Labanca, Portia Palmerlee and Aden Wilmshurst
10 Most Popular Articles in 2025
- Our Thanks and Appreciation for Teck Chi Wong’s Outstanding Service – Austaxpolicy: The Tax and Transfer Policy Blog
- Rethinking the Laffer Curve: What It Tells Us About Modern Tax Reforms – Austaxpolicy: The Tax and Transfer Policy Blog
- Why Taxing Income Less and Consumption More Is Not the Answer – Austaxpolicy: The Tax and Transfer Policy Blog
- Tax Simplicity, or Simplicity of Evasion? What France’s Self-Employment Regimes Teach Us – Austaxpolicy: The Tax and Transfer Policy Blog
- Who Really Pays for Trump’s Tariffs? Unpacking the Trillion Dollar Question – Austaxpolicy: The Tax and Transfer Policy Blog
- Brief: Progressive and Regressive Taxes – Austaxpolicy: The Tax and Transfer Policy Blog
- Stemming Aggressive Tax Practices for Economic Development: Can Formulary Apportionment Help Developing Nations? – Austaxpolicy: The Tax and Transfer Policy Blog
- Better Targeting of Australia’s Age Pension – Austaxpolicy: The Tax and Transfer Policy Blog
- TTPI Working Paper: Measuring the Changing Size of Intergenerational Transfers in the Australian Tax and Transfer System – Austaxpolicy: The Tax and Transfer Policy Blog
- Rental Property Tax Deductions and Individual Investor Housing Demand – Austaxpolicy: The Tax and Transfer Policy Blog
Citation :
Walpola, Sonali, Ping, Yuan, Minas, John, Morris, Todd, Labanca, Claudio, Palmerlee, Portia & Wilmshurst, Aden,
(2025),
Happy Holidays from Austaxpolicy 2025,
Austaxpolicy: Tax and Transfer Policy Blog,
20 December 2025, Available from:
https://www.austaxpolicy.com/happy-holidays-from-austaxpolicy-2025/
About the Author
Dr Sonali Walpola is an Associate Professor at the ANU College of Business and Economics. Sonali's research interests broadly encompass taxation law and policy and the nature of common law developments. Her recent projects have analysed integrity measures to address tax avoidance through trusts, the interpretation of the residence article in double tax agreements, and the Australian High Court's attitude to change in the common law. Sonali is a co-editor of Austaxpolicy, the Journal of Australian Taxation and Law&History, which is the journal of the Australia New Zealand Law History Society. Sonali is a fellow of the ANU Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, a member of The Tax Institute Higher Education Academic Board, and the Academic Lead of the ANU Tax Clinic, which she co-founded in 2019.
Yuan (Helen) Ping is a Lecturer in Business and Corporate Law at the Department of Business Law and Taxation of Monash University and a qualified legal practitioner. She is currently completing a PhD at the Research School of Accounting, Australian National University. Helen’s research interests are in the fields of regulatory enforcement and corporate tax behaviour, specifically examining the effects of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s tax-related comment letters on market response and firm policies. She has published papers in the Australian Tax Forum and eJournal of Tax Research. Helen is also the co-editor of Austaxpolicy.
John Minas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University, a Research Affiliate with the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, at ANU, and an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Law Futures Centre at Griffith University.
Todd Morris is a Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland and an Economics Editor at AusTaxPolicy. He obtained his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2020. After that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy from 2019 to 2021 and at HEC Montreal from 2022 to 2023. His main research interests are in public and labour economics. A unifying theme to his research is the causal evaluation of government policies (often related to retirement).
Dr Claudio Labanca is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Monash University. His research interests include Labor Economics, Public Economics and Applied Microeconomics. Claudio is a Research Affiliate at the IZA, the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the ANU, SoDa Labs, and is a co-editor of Austaxpolicy.
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