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Business tax reform in Australia. Includes analysis by local and overseas industry experts of past tax reforms, our current business tax system and potential future developments as canvassed by the Australian Government's Future Tax System Review (Henry Review)
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Looking back on the evolution of taxation reform in developed economies over the post-war period, we observe that the early decades were marked by a determined effort to implement reforms based on Haig-Simons principles of a comprehensive income taxation. Under this approach all the various...
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The unprecedented economic changes taking place in China over the past three decades have led to significant new fiscal pressures for the central and provincial governments. The relative decline of public ownership and rise of the private sector has forced governments to substitute revenues from...
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This paper provides an overview and assessment of alternative methods of taxing capital income. We begin by considering why, and to what extent, capital income should be taxed. Having established a reasonably robust case for such taxation, we then review the difficulties of taxing capital income...
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In the 1980s Australia's income tax system was entirely overhauled in an unprecedented reform exercise. The retirement savings and income system was rebuilt entirely, capital gains were brought into the income tax base in a comprehensive fashion, the classical company-shareholder tax regime was...
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Tax reviews are not a new phenomenon in Australia. Since 1950, in addition to several reviews by Parliamentary committees and government — appointed officials or bodies, including the Australian National Audit Office, the Inspector-General of Taxation, and the Board of Taxation, tax has been...
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Hungary was the first post-socialist country in eastern Europe to adopt a general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR). The original GAAR adopted in 1990, best described as a "form and substance" GAAR, was supplemented by a second GAAR in 1998, best described as a "proper use of rights" GAAR. The tax...
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