Universal Public Services Key in Tackling Poverty and Inequality: Oxfam

Oxfam International has released the report ‘Public Good or Private Wealth’ in the lead up to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. The study… Read More ›

ATO-Commissioned Report Estimates Annual Tax Sheltering from Trusts At Over $1 Billion

By 2022, it is expected that over 1 million trusts will exist in Australia. As part of its ongoing program of work as a member… Read More ›

New IMF Study of 80 Countries Asks: How Much Should You Save for Retirement?

‘The Future of Saving: The Role of Pension System Design in an Aging World’, IMF Staff Discussion Note 19/01. The Staff Discussion Note explores how… Read More ›

Treasury Consultation on Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle Bills

The Government has released for public consultation two bills that implement the tax and regulatory components of the CCIV regime and their related explanatory materials.… Read More ›

Treasury Paper 2019-01: The Uncertainty of Revenue Costings in the Medium Term

Authors: Owen Hutchinson, Iyanoosh Reporter, Rita Scholl, Gillian Beer, Declan Trott, Wei Ying So Modelling of the revenue and, as appropriate, distributional impacts of policy… Read More ›

Despite Falling Rates, Corporate Tax Remains a Key Source of Government Revenue: OECD

With a new report and database, Corporate Tax Statistics, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has released internationally comparable statistics and analysis from around… Read More ›

Opportunity for Graduate Students: IMF F&D Contest on Tackling Inequality

Deadline: Thursday 31 January 2019. The International Monetary Fund’s Finance & Development magazine is calling for entries to their F&D Essay Competition, with the prompt:… Read More ›

WU Transfer Pricing Center Conference: Transfer Pricing Developments around the World 2019

The WU Transfer Pricing Center at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law of WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) will organise a… Read More ›

Productivity Commission Inquiry Report on Australia’s Superannuation System

The Productivity Commission report, Superannuation: Assessing Efficiency and Competitiveness, has been released. The report assesses the efficiency and competitiveness of Australia’s superannuation system and whether… Read More ›

Monsoon Pod: Million-Dollar Pencils and the Billion-Dollar Question

Our former intern Nanumi Starke untangles the taxing debate on multinational tax avoidance in this episode of the Monsoon Podcast. How could paying little to… Read More ›