US Initiates Investigation into France’s Digital Services Tax

On July 10, 2019, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) initiated an investigation under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 of the Digital… Read More ›

New Issue of Pittsburgh Tax Review: Feminist Theory and Tax Judgements

The Pittsburgh Tax Review has published Symposium on Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions in its latest issue: The Critical Tax Project, Feminist Theory, and Rewriting Judicial… Read More ›

Australian Treasury Working Paper on Historical Trends and Forecasting Methodology of Tobacco Excise

Treasury Working Paper 2019-03 Tobacco excise: historical trends and forecasting methodology Author: Jonathan O’Bannon John Clark Introduction: Tobacco excise has grown strongly over the last… Read More ›

OECD Highlights Seven Good Practices for Performance Budgeting

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has recently released the report OECD Good Practices for Performance Budgeting. Performance budgeting is defined by the OECD… Read More ›

Australian Government Tax and Transfer Consultations and Submissions Currently Open

Treasury: Genuine redundancy and early retirement scheme payments, closes on Thursday 1 August 2019 In the 2018-19 MYEFO, the Government announced that it would extend… Read More ›

OECD Releases Health Statistics 2019 Database

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development has released the online database OECD Health Statistics 2019 on July 2. The database offers the most comprehensive source… Read More ›

Job Opportunities at the Australian National University & WU Vienna

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer – ANU Crawford School of Public Policy Applications close on Sunday 21 July 2019. The Policy and Governance Program at the Crawford School… Read More ›

New International Pension Research Association Announced

Some of the leading names in pensions research have come together to create a new international association which aims to promote and advance high-quality social… Read More ›

New OECD Research on Retirement, Employment Barriers and Vocational Education in Australia

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has recently published the following working papers and books related to employment in Australia. Labour supply of… Read More ›

Grattan Institute Report: Pass the Stage 1 Tax Cuts Now, but Defer Stage 3

Federal Parliament should pass the Government’s Stage 1 tax cuts immediately but should defer consideration of the controversial Stage 3 cuts, according to a new… Read More ›