Commonwealth Ombudsman Releases Statement on Lawfulness of Income Apportionment Before 7 December 2020

The Commonwealth Ombudsman has released its investigation findings into Services Australia’s and the Department of Social Services’ response to the question of the lawfulness of… Read More ›

TTPI Working Paper: Individuals’ Responsiveness to Marginal Tax Rates

Individuals’ responsiveness to marginal tax rates: Evidence from bunching in the Australian personal income tax Authors: Shane Johnson, Robert Breunig, Miguel Olivo-Villabrille and Arezou Zaresani… Read More ›

NSW Treasury Research Paper: Interstate Comparison of Taxes 2022-23

This paper contains summaries of major tax initiatives for Australian states and territories, updating the Interstate Comparison of Taxes series with interstate tax measures for… Read More ›

European Union: Annual Report on Taxation 2023

The report’s indicator-based analysis assesses the recent trends in EU tax systems, and identifies how tax policy, implementation or compliance could be improved. The EU… Read More ›

Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law Seminar: Tax Levies and Legal Certainty

Tax levies and legal certainty: hendiadys or oxymoron? Speakers: Marcello Poggioli (presenter, University of Padova), Tony Pagone (respondent, former Federal Court judge) and Jennifer Davies… Read More ›

Modest Recovery in Asia-Pacific Tax Revenues in 2021 as COVID-19 Weighed on Tourism

Tax-to-GDP ratios remained below pre-pandemic levels in a majority of economies in the Asia-Pacific region in 2021, according to a new OECD report. Revenue Statistics… Read More ›

OECD Releases New Reports and Analyses on BEPS Progress

As part of the OECD Secretary-General Tax Report to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors delivered, the OECD has released a number of new… Read More ›

Treasury Consultation: Modernising Individual Tax Residency Rules

Date: 21 July 2023 – 22 September 2023 The Government is consulting on a new, modernised individual tax residency framework based on recommendations made by… Read More ›

TTPI Working Paper: Welfare Reform and Migrant’s Long-Term Labor Market Integration

Authors: Johannes S. Kunz (Monash University) and Anna Zhu (RMIT University) We study the effect of welfare assistance on migrant integration in Australia. The government… Read More ›

Australia Releases Its First National Wellbeing Framework

The Australian Government today has released the Measuring What Matters Statement, which presents the country’s first national wellbeing framework, to help better track outcomes in… Read More ›