Taxes

Average tax rates have trended downwards since 2001 in Australia, but it’s still the high income earners who are getting the most benefit, shows the annual HILDA survey

Even though stamp duty is highly inefficient, replacing it with an alternative tax will always be controversial – but what are the options?

The upcoming federal election could be fought over proposed income tax cuts, but what’s the main difference between the Coalition and Labor’s plans for taxation?

The 2018 Economic and Social Outlook Conference highlighted widespread concern that politics was failing to deliver the policies the country needs

Australia abolished death taxes in the late 1970s, but could their reintroduction help address social inequality?

How the 5p plastic bag tax changed British habits overnight, and why we should think twice about our takeaway coffee cups

Australia’s Federal Budget is as much a political as an economic plan and is the biggest spending budget outside a recession or an emergency

It’s easier to become a company director than it is to get a driver’s licence, and researchers say it’s time to stop the unscrupulous using phoenix companies that are costing us billions.

Professor Ross Garnaut warns an over-optimistic budget update is obscuring the need to take action to boost the economy

New insights into human behaviour are bringing about a public policy revolution