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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg confirmed yesterday that Australia is in its first recession in 29 years after the economy dropped 0.3 per cent in the March… Read More ›

The United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced that his office is beginning investigations into digital services taxes that have been adopted or are being considered… Read More ›

In an effort to help responding to the urgent need for transparency and accountability in COVID-19 extraordinary fiscal packages, the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency… Read More ›

Victoria Business School’s Working Papers in Public Finance series Designing Direct Tax Reforms: Alternative Approaches, Working Paper 01/2020 By Nazila Alinaghi, John Creedy and Norman… Read More ›

The Australian Government has announced it will refund $721 million worth of welfare debts it raised through the controversial method of averaging ATO income data… Read More ›

New analysis of poverty in Australia finds that, before COVID-19, households with children with a female main income earner were more than twice as likely… Read More ›

Who’s hit hardest by the economic effects of COVID-19?, Melbourne Institute Research Insight No. 10/20 By Roger Wilkins (Melbourne Institute) Abstract The COVID-19 crisis has… Read More ›

Recovery from the profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s lives, jobs, businesses and the wider economy is likely to be lengthy, challenging and… Read More ›

Alberto Alesina, the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, passed away on Saturday (23 May 2020) at age 63. He was well… Read More ›

The Australian Government’s JobKeeper program is now expected to cost $70 billion instead of $130 billion. Last week, the ATO and Treasury advised the Government… Read More ›