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The Constitution and Islam : Are Tax Reforms Possible to Facilitate Islamic Finance?
Freudenberg, Brett - 2015
focuses on whether it is constitutionally possible for Australia to implement reforms to facilitate faithbased financial … transactions.There have been calls for Australia to become a financial hub – particularly in South East Asia. One aspect of this is … fundamental question needs to be addressed: is it appropriate for Australia's tax laws to be amended to facilitate what may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037879
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Facilitating Islamic Finance in Australia : Possible Models for Reform
Freudenberg, Brett - 2015
Islamic finance in Australia. The necessity for a comprehensive approach is critical if the government's desire to promote … Australia as a financial services hub is to be realised. However, in pursuing this goal one identified delimiter in attracting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038625
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Chasing Islamic Finance : A Framework to Assess the Potential Benefits of Australian Tax Reforms to Facilitate Islamic Finance
Freudenberg, Brett - 2015
(Sherry, 2010; Bowen, 2009). It has been argued that the greater facilitation of Islamic finance is critical for Australia to … Islamic finance for Australia? This paper sets out to provide a framework of analysis so the arguments for tax reforms can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036450
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Islamic Finance in Australia : Methods for Tax Reform
Freudenberg, Brett - 2015
Islamic finance in Australia. The necessity for a comprehensive approach is critical if the government's desire to promote … Australia as a financial services hub is to be realised. However, in pursuing this goal one identified delimiter in attracting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037593
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Islamic Capital Markets : Market Developments and Conceptual Evolution in the First Thirteen Years
McMillen, Michael J. T. - 2011
This paper considers the factors the allowed for the birth and facilitated the subsequent development of the equity side and the finance (or debt) side of the Islamic capital markets. The equity side of the Islamic capital markets began in 1998 with the issuance (after five years of debate) of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128753
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The Concept of Riba in Islamic Banking Law : An Introduction
Phull, Chetan - 2012
This article provides a short overview of "riba", the principal feature of Islamic banking law. Riba refers to certain prohibitions against charging and paying interest on loans and prohibitions against certain other transactions to protect debtors. Sources of Islamic law are reviewed to explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113940
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Islamic Capital Markets : A Selective Introduction
McMillen, Michael J. T. - 2013
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Islamic Banking : Some Distinguishing Regulatory Considerations
McMillen, Michael J. T. - 2018
This focus of this paper is the regulation of one segment of modern Islamic finance: Islamic banking, whether conducted by stand-alone Islamic banks or “Islamic windows” within conventional interest-based banks. Consideration is given to a select group of illustrative issues that arise in...
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Zakat : Islam's missed opportunity to limit predatory taxation
Kuran, Timur - 2019
One of Islam's five canonical pillars is a predictable, fixed, and mildly progressive tax system called zakat. It was meant to finance various causes typical of a pre-modern government. Implicit in the entire transfer system was personal property rights as well as constraints on government—two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012125609
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Housing finance of Australian Islamic financial service providers (IFSPS) : an empirical analysis from Shariah perspectives
Ahmad, Abu Umar Faruq; Shahed, A. K. M. - In: IIUM journal of economics and management 18 (2010) 1, pp. 1-43
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009692292