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A recent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that, in the 2015-16 financial year, the direct cost of illegal phoenix to the Australian Government is $1.66 billion,… Read More ›

Hanappi, T. (2018), “Corporate Effective Tax Rates: Model Description and Results from 36 OECD and Non-OECD Countries”, OECD Taxation Working Papers, No. 38, OECD Publishing,… Read More ›

Treasury: GST on Offshore Hotel Bookings, closing on Thursday 9 August 2018. The draft legislation will extend the GST by ensuring that offshore sellers of… Read More ›

The Third G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 21-22 July. Included in various clauses of… Read More ›

The International Monetary Fund has released a July update to its April WEO forecast, amid increasingly uneven economic expansion and mounting risks to the outlook.… Read More ›

The Parliamentary Budget Office has published its Report no. 02/2018, ‘Trends affecting the sustainability of Commonwealth taxes’. Summary The composition of Commonwealth tax receipts shifts… Read More ›

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has released its Auditor-General Report No.1 2018–19, The Implementation and Performance of the Cashless Debit Card Trial. The objective… Read More ›

OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 1482, The quantification of structural reforms: Taking stock of the results for OECD and Non-OECD countries The paper summarises… Read More ›

The International Labour Organization (ILO) recently published a working paper reviewing Universal Basic Income (UBI) options in light of ILO standards. The paper notes that… Read More ›

In its first estimate of tax gap for individuals, the Australian Taxation Office has published the key findings on ‘Estimating the tax gap for individuals… Read More ›