ATO Estimates $11 Billion Small Business Income Tax Gap

New figures released by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) estimate that almost 90% of income tax from small businesses is paid voluntarily or with little… Read More ›

100 Families WA Baseline Report: Insights into Hardship and Disadvantage in Perth

100 Families WA is a collaborative research project between the University of Western Australia (UWA) and eight not-for-profit organisations in the community services sector. The… Read More ›

Vienna University of Economics and Business Conference: Recent and Pending Cases at the Court of Justice of the European Union on Direct Taxation

The Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) is holding the conference “Recent and Pending Cases at the… Read More ›

New IMF Working Papers on Tax, Pension and Fiscal Policy

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently released the following working papers on the topics of tax, pension and fiscal policy:   State Institutions and… Read More ›

Call for Papers: SMU Global Taxation Conference 2020

Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Law is now calling for papers for the David R Tillinghast Global Taxation Conference 2020. The conference will take… Read More ›

ANU Seminar: Restricted and Unrestricted Fiscal Grants and Tax Effort of Panchayats in India

ANU Crawford School ACDE Seminar Restricted and unrestricted fiscal grants and tax effort of Panchayats in India Presenter: Raghbendra Jha, Professor of Economics, ANU Crawford… Read More ›

Call for Applications: Baxt Prize 2019

Applications for the 2019 Baxt Prize are now open. The Baxt Prize is offered by the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.… Read More ›

Institute for Fiscal Studies Report: How Do Other Countries Raise More in Tax Than the UK?

How do other countries raise more in tax than the UK? Published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, UK Author: Maddalena Conte, Helen Miller and… Read More ›

Grattan New Report Calls for Policy Changes to Ensure a Fair Go for Younger Australians

Today’s young Australians are in danger of being the first generation in memory to have lower living standards than their parents’ generation, according to a… Read More ›

OECD Working Paper on Assessing Environmental Tax Policies

OECD Environment Working Paper no. 150 Are environmental tax policies beneficial? Learning from programme evaluation studies Author: Jonas Teusch, Nils Axel Braathen Abstract: This paper… Read More ›