The financial crisis that engulfed global markets in 2008 created an acute need for improved international economic cooperation. This book focuses on international taxation and examines how the financial crisis prompted renewed attempts to enhance international tax transparency and confront tax...

Australia's Future Fund (FF) was created in 2006 as a long-term savings fund designed to meet the Australian Government's future public service pension liabilities. With the onset of the financial crisis, fewcommentators thought the Australian Government would have the capacity or interest to...

Reforming state and local government property taxes can contribute to a fairer and more sustainable housing system as well as delivering additional economic and social dividends. This research proposed a nationally coordinated incremental strategy with clearly defined short, medium and long-term...

The March 2014 Report of the National Commission of Audit and the Commonwealth's tax reform and federalism discussion papers published in the first half of 2015 provided some early insights into the Coalition Government's agenda for reforming the national tax system and fiscal federalism. One...

The crisis and its aftermath had a dramatic short-term effect on federal relations and, as the twelve case studies in this volume show, set in place a new set of socio-political factors that are shaping the longer-run process of institutional evolution and adaptation in federal systems. This...