In the last 24 hours, we have heard mutterings about the possibility that an earlier commitment to cuts in the corporate tax rate may not go ahead in the budget. Some in the business community have, unsurprisingly…
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Productivity growth results in more valued output per unit of production input, or the same output for fewer inputs. Growth of productivity requires changes involving the adoption of new technology, better…
The Federal Government’s quest to return the budget to surplus raises many questions and not just about what immediate rationale there is on economic grounds for this strategy. It also raises deeper questions…
Oliver Wendell Holmes, jnr famously said that he liked paying income tax: it was the price of civilisation. Sure, he bought his civilisation at about seven cents in the dollar, but the general point remains…
What can we expect from the Tax Forum at Parliament House today and tomorrow? We may anticipate consensus that the tax system should be efficient, fair, understandable and effective in raising the revenue…
There will be a myriad of issues debated at this week’s Tax Forum but top of the wishlist for many experts is reforming housing taxation. Housing makes up the lion’s share of household wealth in Australia…
Momentum is building behind the global campaign to impose a tax on transactions in financial markets, with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso announcing plans to introduce the measure as…
The Federal government’s Tax Forum offers a unique opportunity to begin remedying some of the inefficiencies and inequities we are witnessing in our housing system. Housing in Australia has become an unaffordable…
It is a shame that the GST is off the menu at October’s Tax Forum, because one of its central tenets – the exemption of basic food and beverages – deserves to be debated again. The exemption is basically…
While changes to the GST are not an explicit item on the Tax Forum agenda, they should be and the issue will arise anyway. A broad and comprehensive GST tax base along the lines of the New Zealand model…
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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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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Deputy Director and Associate Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Visiting Academic, The Open University
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Lecturer in Accounting, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor of Economics (Griffith University) and Teaching Associate (University of Queensland), Griffith University
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne