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This paper provides a detailed outline of most of the major features of the Australian goods and services tax (GST). As well as explaining and evaluating the operation of the GST law, the paper compares the Australian GST with the equivalent features of the European VAT. The paper was first...
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Graham Hill was for many years the pre-eminent tax judge in the Federal Court of Australia. Throughout his career as a …
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This paper critically evaluates the legal design of Australia’s GST (a value added tax) in light of recent OECD work on … consideration of Australia’s place of taxation rules for ‘inbound’, ‘outbound’, ‘wholly domestic’, and ‘wholly foreign’ transactions …, and their interaction with the rules on input tax credit entitlements, reveals that Australia does indeed use such a Main …
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The paper surveys the characteristics of the common European VAT system, proposed by the EU-Commission to overcome the weaknesses of the transitional European VAT system, which was enacted in 1993 and is still in force. We argue that a harmonized VAT rate will generate substantial costs for EU...
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The paper surveys the characteristics of the common European VAT system, proposed by the EU-Commission to overcome the weaknesses of the transitional European VAT system, which was enacted in 1993 and is still in force. We argue that a harmonized VAT rate will generate substantial costs for EU...
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The quintessentially eccentric style in which the Australian GST law is drafted has led the High Court of Australia to … suggest that Australia's GST differs from other value added taxes in respect of a concept that is basic to all such taxes: the …
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This paper analyzes transfer pricing incentives under a destination-based and an origin-based VAT system. While a switch to the origin-based VAT may moderate or reinforce the incentive for transfer pricing induced by income tax differentials, we show that in the case of the EU this switch tends...
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How should immovable property (in particular residential property) be treated under a value added tax? This paper considers whether proposals to tax all sales of immovable property (including consumer to consumer sales) are preferable to existing models (in which the first sale of new...
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, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, and other countries, the paper remains highly topical and relevant to the current discourse on …
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This paper builds on an analysis of VAT jurisdiction rules in Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 09/44, to consider intentional and unintentional double non-taxation issues in the context of VAT. Since a VAT is an indirect consumption tax, imposed on suppliers but intended to burden the...
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