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Consultation period: 28 August to 10 December 2025 The Australian government announced they would abolish another 500 nuisance tariffs from 1 July 2026. This is on top… Read More ›

The Australian Government will wipe almost half of Australia’s social security debt backlog and roll out resolution payments of up to $600 for those impacted… Read More ›

ANU Tax and Transfer Policy Institute Director Robert Breunig and Research Fellow Kristen Sobeck joined Democracy Sausage Podcast to discuss this week’s Economic Reform Roundtable.… Read More ›

The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations has released the final independent assurance review which examined the IT system operating the Targeted Compliance Framework against… Read More ›

The High Court of Australia has delivered its decision in the PepsiCo case, confirming that the multinational is not liable to pay royalty withholding tax… Read More ›

The International Institute for Sustainable Development and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released a new toolkit for tax administrators and policymakers… Read More ›

The Australian Government have released three issues papers ahead of the Economic Reform Roundtable from 19–21 August. The issues papers cover each of the three themes… Read More ›

Authors: Richard Holden and Rosalind Dixon Executive Summary This report proposes a “Progressive GST” for Australia. It is responsive to the standard criticism of value-added… Read More ›

The Commonwealth Ombudsman has released a report of its investigation into the cancellation of income support payments under the Targeted Compliance Framework. Titled Automation in… Read More ›

On 31 July 2025, the Senate agreed to re-adopt an inquiry into the National Cultural Policy to be undertaken by the Environment and Communications References… Read More ›