Group of Eight Australia Report: COVID-19 Roadmap to Recovery

COVID-19 Roadmap to Recovery – A Report for the Nation Covid-19 has changed the course of history. What started off as a flu-like illness in… Read More ›

Project SAFE Helps US States Mitigate COVID-19 Crisis

Project SAFE (State Action in Fiscal Emergencies), is an effort by academics and their students to help American states mitigate the fiscal crisis caused by… Read More ›

Labour Taxes in OECD Continued to Decline in 2019

Labour taxes on the average worker across OECD countries continued to decline for the sixth consecutive year in 2019, according to a new OECD report.… Read More ›

ACOSS Welcomes Senate Committee’s Call for JobSeeker Increase

The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) welcomes the report of the Senate Inquiry into the Adequacy of Newstart. The Community Affairs References Committee recommends… Read More ›

New Global Study Shows Weak Transparency and Oversight in Government Spending

Amid a global pandemic that is forcing governments around the world to launch new spending measures, the International Budget Partnership’s (IBP) latest Open Budget Survey… Read More ›

Australia Climbs in Latest Open Budget Survey Rankings

Australia’s budget is heading for the red in the wake of COVID-19, but it is in much better shape when it comes to transparency, a… Read More ›

Treasurer to Provide Economic Update in May

The Australian Government will update the nation in May on the economic impact of the coronavirus and the Government’s actions to date. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg… Read More ›

OECD Taxation Working Paper: What Drives Consumption Tax Revenues?

What drives consumption tax revenues? Disentangling policy and macroeconomic drivers, OECD Taxation Working Papers No. 47 By Hannah Simon & Michelle Harding Abstract: This paper… Read More ›

Indigenous Australians and the COVID-19 Crisis: Compilation of Short Papers

Indigenous Australians and the COVID-19 crisis: Perspectives on public policy ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) Topical Issue 1/2020, edited by Francis Markham,… Read More ›

Two New Working Papers in the TTPI Series

Inflation variability across Australian households: Implications for inequality and indexation policy, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute Working Paper No. 3/2020 Authors: Marcel van Kints &… Read More ›