the share of income they hold. We provide a cautionary tale from Australia of how comprehensive tax reform legislation in …Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) survey an important new literature using income tax-based data to measure the share … of income held by top income groups. But changes in tax legislation that expand the tax base to include income sources (e …

the share of income they hold. We provide a cautionary tale from Australia of how comprehensive tax reform legislation in …Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) survey an important new literature using income tax-based data to measure the share … of income held by top income groups. But changes in tax legislation that expand the tax base to include income sources (e …

the share of income they hold. We provide a cautionary tale from Australia of how comprehensive tax reform legislation in …Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) survey an important new literature using income taxbased data to measure the share … of income held by top income groups. But changes in tax legislation that expand the tax base to include income sources (e …

, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey data, as well as the ATO 1% sample tax files, to replicate our top …We systematically compare differences in recent Australian income inequality estimates derived from tax records and … income share values. In contrast, accuracy is substantially improved using the ATO 2% sample introduced in 2011-12. Using …

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index …, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann …