Financial years create a standardised timeframe for business reporting, government budgeting and tax collection. But their start and end dates vary around the world.
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The use of family trusts in Australia is more widespread than many realise. How do they work, and why are they controversial?
National insurance payments are linked to state pension entitlement in the UK – but the Conservatives want to abolish them for the self-employed.
If companies are ‘people’ too in the eyes of the law - why are they taxed differently from the rest of us?
Both parties hope growing the economy can help them avoid difficult choices.
The former prime minister chose to ignore the experts over her growth plan and the mistake cost her – and the UK – dear.
Israel will withhold Palestinian tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority ‘until further notice’, and not for the first time.
Former treasury boss Ken Henry has fessed up to helping dumb down debates about tax and budgets to lists of winners and losers. He says what matters is what wins rather than who.
Different taxes affect investment in different ways.
National’s tax policies have been tweaked since the election, thanks to coalition agreements with NZ First and ACT. But the plan for tax cuts seems to have survived, to the benefit of core supporters.
In our first podcast of 2024, Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor discusses the tax broken promise, where the economy is heading, falling inflation, and more.
In the government’s dramatic recalibration of stage 3 all taxpayers will get a cut, rather than just those earning more than $45,000.
All prime ministers break promises. But there are some whose breaches go into the history books – and Anthony Albanese has just joined that group.
Electric vehicle owners appear to have no clear right to a refund despite the High Court determining that the tax charged by Victoria was invalid.
A new review found PwC Australia had a ‘whatever it takes’ culture, making those raking in the most money ‘untouchables’. Australians need to know if that culture has infiltrated other big businesses.
New Zealand needs to follow international precedent and make it expensive for investors to keep properties empty.
A more proactive Inland Revenue could learn from overseas experience and help reduce the devastation caused by failing businesses.
Scammers have exploited a simple weakness in the myGov online portal to redirect hundreds of millions of dollars in tax refunds.
Timber parks, where the paperwork for loads of timber is inspected, can help stem the financial losses from illegal exports.
Forget wealth or capital gains taxes, a straight tax on housing equity – exempting most homeowners – would be a simple and efficient way to break the circuit of inequality.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Taxation and Commercial Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Visiting Professor of Tax Law, New York University, and Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Professor of Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD Candidate, casual academic, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer, Accounting Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Surrey
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Associate Professor in Taxation, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law, UNSW