PC Releases Prelimanary Findings Report on Human Services

The Productivity Commission report is titled ‘Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice into Human Services: Identifying Sectors for Reform’ and seeks to inform consultation which will be… Read More ›

Status of Tax and Transfer Bills Introduced to 45th Parliament

  Name of Bill Portfolio Summary Status at 15 September 2016 Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 Treasury  24 measures designed to assist in bringing the Budget back… Read More ›

PC Releases Issues Paper for Submissions to the Public Inquiry into Superannuation

Superannuation: Alternative Default Models- Issues Paper, has been produced by the Productivity Commission to assist those interested in preparing submissions to the inquiry into efficiency… Read More ›

Per Capita Releases Report: The Adequacy of the Age Pension in Australia

This report examines the adequacy of the Age Pension, finding that it does not maintain a decent standard of living for those who are reliant… Read More ›

ATO Releases Two Taxpayer Alerts Cautioning on Multinational Profit Shifting

Media release here.

Senate Passes Budget Savings (Ominbus) Bill 2016

The Bill consists of 24 Amendments aimed at budget repair. The following table shows the act and amendments made in the Bill. Act Amendment Higher… Read More ›

Peter Whiteford and Daniel Nethery New Article: Where to for Welfare?

The article presents an in-depth analysis of the Coalition’s proposed budget cuts and finds they would have a disproportionate impact on low income groups. The full… Read More ›

Vacancy at DPS for PEL 1 Senior Researcher in Economics or Tax

The role at the Department of Parliamentary Services is within the Economics section, Research branch. For full job description and application details see here.

ANAO Publishes Audit Report on Meeting Revenue Commitments from Compliance Measures by the ATO

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Taxation Office in achieving revenue commitments established under specific Budget-funded compliance measures.… Read More ›

CGC Introduction to Fiscal Equalisation in Australia

The Commonwealth Grants Commission staff have produced two short PowerPoint presentations explaining what Horizontal Fiscal Equalisation is, and how the CGC calculates the associated relativities.