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The aim of the research at the CIS is to work towards an efficient and predictable tax system that does not impose too great a burden on the economy.

Publications

  1. Trans-Atlantic Fiscal Follies: The Sequel

    Adam Creighton, Oliver Marc Hartwich, Robert Carling | 30 Nov 2011 | Policy Forum

    What started as the US subprime crisis became the global financial crisis and has now developed into the Trans-Atlantic sovereign... Read More...

  2. The Decade-long Binge: How Government Squandered Ten Years of Economic Prosperity

    Luke Malpass | 17 Nov 2011 | Issue Analysis

    Government spending in New Zealand has increased enormously over the past decade in order to meet social goals. From 2000-2010... Read More...

  3. Trans-Atlantic Fiscal Follies: The Sequel

    Adam Creighton, Oliver Marc Hartwich, Robert Carling | 30 Aug 2011 | Speeches

    The GFC is back. What started as the US subprime crisis became the global financial crisis, which has now developed into... Read More...

  4. Australia’s Angry Mayors: How Population Growth Frustrates Local Councils

    Adam Creighton, Oliver Marc Hartwich | 14 Jul 2011 | Policy Monographs

    To understand the effects of a growing population on Australia’s councils, CIS surveyed local authorities from all over... Read More...

  5. Taxploitation II: Tax Reform for Incentive,Productivity and Economic Growth

    John Humphreys, Robert Carling, Sinclair Davidson, Stephen Kirchner | 13 Jul 2011 | CIS Readings

    This volume reviews tax reforms implemented since the publication of Taxploitation by the CIS in 2006 and concludes that... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. The Fightback! lesson: how politics can stymie good public policy

    Stephen Kirchner | 26 Dec 2011 | The Sydney Morning Herald

    Twenty years ago, the Liberal-National Party coalition released Fightback!, the most comprehensive and market-oriented policy ... Read More

  2. Let the online bargain hunt begin, properly

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 15 Dec 2011 | The Telegraph

    Australians are being ripped off due to Government regulations, especially when buying cars, bananas, and dvds.... Read More

  3. Budget heat in a revenue drought

    Robert Carling | 08 Dec 2011 | Business Spectator

    Governments in other countries are in deeper fiscal distress than ours, but governments at the federal and state levels in ... Read More

  4. Business will cop super fall-out

    Adam Creighton | 24 Nov 2011 | Geelong Advertiser

    THE Federal Government has introduced legislation to lift the superannuation guarantee to 12 per cent by July, 2019. About ... Read More

  5. Avoiding conflict but quietly waving flag

    Jessica Brown | 21 Nov 2011 | Newcastle Herald

    Southeast Asian governments will welcome increased US involvement in the region.... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. US presidential race taxing

    Robert Carling | 27 Jan 2012

    Sketchy tax system causes problems for presidential hopefuls....

  2. Car industry handouts are childish

    Alexander Philipatos | 27 Jan 2012

    Paying for an industry that can’t support itself is lunacy. Car companies need to bite the bullet and find a sustainable ...

  3. World class economy, first class prices

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 16 Dec 2011

    Government regulations on consumer products make Australia one of the most expensive countries in the world....

  4. The long march of Fightback

    Stephen Kirchner | 09 Dec 2011

    Major economic reform can lead to political success and good policy, and government shouldn’t forget it....

  5. Left or Right can find common ground

    Adam Creighton | 25 Nov 2011

    It is fascinating that the more reflective elements of the Left and the (properly) liberal Right agree with each other on ...

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