ACOSS Releases Budget Priorities Statement 2019-2020

The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has released its Budget Priorities Statement for the 2019-2020 Federal Budget. Asserting that the budget position is unbalanced… Read More ›

Contributed to Innovative Social Policy? The OECD Wants Your Story

Putting People at the Heart of Social Policy – Closes on Friday 15 March 2019 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is calling… Read More ›

New EU Report on Parental and Paternity Leave Uptake

The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), a tripartite EU agency, has published the report ‘Working conditions: Parental and paternity… Read More ›

OECD Consultation on Solutions to the Tax Challenges of Digitalisation

Public Consultation Addressing the Tax Challenges of the Digitalisation of the Economy – Deadline extended to Wednesday 6 March 2019. As part of the ongoing work… Read More ›

Basic Income Experiment in Finland – Preliminary Results Released

Finland’s Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and Kela – The Social Insurance Institution of Finland have released the report ‘The basic income experiment 2017–2018… Read More ›

Updated Release of EUROMOD Model (I1.0+)

EUROMOD is a tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union that enables researchers and policy analysts to calculate, in a comparable manner, the effects of… Read More ›

Open: International Fiscal Association Prizes and Competitions for 2019

Deadline for submissions: Monday 1 April. The International Fiscal Association (IFA) provides the following research project and award opportunities, with a submission deadline of Monday… Read More ›

ACOSS & BSL Report: Affordable, Clean Energy for People on Low Incomes

The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) and the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) have published the report Affordable, clean energy for people on low… Read More ›

Treasury Consultation: Remake of Sunsetting Superannuation Contributions Tax Regulations

Closes on Friday 15 February 2019. The Australian Treasury is inviting interesting parties to comment on this consultation. The existing Superannuation Contributions Tax (Assessment and… Read More ›

IMF Releases New Global Database on Fiscal Decentralisation

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released the Fiscal Decentralization Dataset, which contains information for a global sample of 75 economies on indicators widely used… Read More ›