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Improving tax compliance without increasing revenue: Evidence from population-wide randomized controlled trials in Papua New Guinea, TTPI Working Paper 7/2020 By Christopher Hoy, Luke McKenzie… Read More ›

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released latest employment figures. It was revealed seasonally adjusted employment in Australia decreased by 227,700 people between April and… Read More ›

The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) is offering two fully funded Higher Degree by Research (HDR) research scholarships under the Research Training Program (RTP) scheme.… Read More ›

COVID-19 and Inequalities By Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, Robert Joyce & Xiaowei Xu (UK Institute for Fiscal Studies) Much of the debate about the… Read More ›

Did JobSeeker and JobKeeper achieve its aims? Melbourne Institute Research Insight no. 12/20 By Nicolas Hérault, Jan Kabátek, Guyonne Kalb, Jordy Meekes & Mael Guillou… Read More ›

The OECD has released its latest Economic Outlook. With unprecedented uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the OECD has taken the unusual step of presenting… Read More ›

PwC recently released a report, ‘Where next for Australia’s tax system?’, analysing how tax reform can help Australia reboots its economic prosperity in a post-COVID-19… Read More ›

On 9 June, Treasury Secretary Dr Steven Kennedy appeared before the Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 to explain the $60 billion JobKeeper estimates variation. His… Read More ›

The $150,000 instant asset write-off introduced by the Australian Government as part of its COVID-19 economic response package has been extended for six months to… Read More ›

The Australian Government announced its free childcare scheme during the COVID-19 crisis would be turned off on 12 July and it would return to the… Read More ›