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...

This study examines the effective tax rates of listed companies in Australia for a period of 11 years from 1994 to 2004. Two measures of effective tax rate are used: total tax expense divided by pre-tax accounting profit (ETR), and current tax expense divided by pre-tax accounting profit (ETR')....