Australian Treasury Consultation: Performance Review of Shadow Economy Procurement Connected Policy

Consultation closing date: 23 September 2022 As part of the 2018‑19 Budget and in response to the Black Economy Taskforce’s Final Report, the Government announced… Read More ›

IMF Working Papers

Distributional Effects of Tax Reforms in Japan: Micro-simulation Approach Author: Takuma Hisanaga This paper conducts micro-simulations to study the distributional effects of several tax measures… Read More ›

ATO Releases Latest Taxation Statistics

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has released the 2019-20 edition of Taxation Statistics. It provides an overview of statistics from tax returns and related schedules… Read More ›

Australian Treasury Discussion Paper: Multinational Tax Integrity and Tax Transparency

Consultation closing date: 2 September 2022 The Australian Government, as part of its election commitment platform, announced a multinational tax integrity package to address the… Read More ›

Tax Practitioners Board Releases Four Guidance Documents for Consultation

The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) has released four draft guidance documents for public consultation. This includes three new and one updated guidance document for tax… Read More ›

Report: COVID and Wealth Inequality in Australia

A new report by the ACOSS/UNSW Sydney Poverty and Inequality Partnership, The wealth inequality pandemic: COVID and wealth inequality confirms that even though Australians are… Read More ›

Australian Treasury Consultation: Adjustment to Tax on Certain Payments or Credits Paid to Indian Firms

On 2 April 2022, in connection with the Australia‑India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (AI‑ECTA), Australia agreed to amend Australia’s domestic taxation law to stop… Read More ›

TTPI Working Paper: Paying Back Australia’s COVID-19 Debt

Paying back Australia’s COVID-19 debt Authors: Trevor Rose and Robert Breunig (Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU) The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a sudden and… Read More ›

BEPS Action 5 Harmful Tax Practices: New Regime Results

Further progress has been made on the implementation of the international standard on harmful tax practices as the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS agrees new… Read More ›

International Monetary Fund Releases World Economic Outlook July Update

The International Monetary Fund has released its July update of the World Economic Outlook 2022.   World Economic Outlook Update July 2022: Gloomy and More… Read More ›