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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. July 2010 e-PreCIS

    Greg Lindsay | 13 Jul 2010 | e-PreCIS

    The taxpayer smells a rat Tax revolts have some history in Australia, the best known example being the Eureka Stockade.... Read More...

  2. June 2010 e-PreCIS

    Greg Lindsay | 01 Jun 2010 | e-PreCIS

    The Rudd government’s Resources Super Profits Tax (RSPT) confirms what Ronald Reagan said about politicians and their view... Read More...

  3. Towards a Red Tape Trading Scheme: Treating Excessive Bureaucracy as Just Another Kind of Pollution

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 10 May 2010 | Issue Analysis

    Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich, CIS Research Fellow, argues that Government should measure the regulatory costs on the Australian... Read More...

  4. The Unfinished Business of Australian Income Tax Reform

    Robert Carling | 10 Mar 2010 | Policy Monographs

    Robert Carling says the reform agenda for personal income tax should be to cut marginal tax rates; implement automatic indexation... Read More...

  5. Reforming Capital Gains Tax: The Myths and Reality behind Australia’s Most Misunderstood Tax

    Stephen Kirchner | 01 Dec 2009 | Policy Monographs

    The implications of the Ralph Capital Gains Tax (CGT) reforms vary widely depending on the type of taxpayer, asset class,... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Tax policy devised by party that is green with envy

    Robert Carling | 03 Sep 2010 | The Australian

    Redistributing wealth rather than creating it seems to be the Greens' approach, says Robert Carling in The Australian, 3 ... Read More

  2. The Henry Report, state taxes and the commonwealth–state divide

    Robert Carling | 13 May 2010 | Online Opinion

    The Henry tax review could change Commonwealth/state fiscal relations.... Read More

  3. Tax reform should include cuts to marginal rates

    Robert Carling | 11 Mar 2010 | The Australian

    Cutting personal income tax would help to expand the economy’s productive capacity.... Read More

  4. Spare a thought for savers and tenants

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 04 Dec 2009 | The Australian

    Newspapers have a big heart for heavily indebted homeowners. Perhaps occasionally they should show equal compassion for tenants ... Read More

  5. Capital gains tax won’t make housing more affordable

    Stephen Kirchner | 23 Nov 2009 | Online Opinion

    Many commentators think a CGT on owner-occupied housing is good economics, but bad politics. In reality, it is bad economics ... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. The Economic Consensus We Could Do Without

    Stephen Kirchner | 25 Jun 2010

    Treasury Secretary Ken Henry this week accused academic economists of being ‘loath to come to a consensus position on anything’ ...

  2. Tax reform: Kiwis 3, Aussies NIL

    Luke Malpass | 04 Jun 2010

    Imagine the unimaginable. The Australian and New Zealand football teams play off in the World Cup final in Johannesburg in ...

  3. RSPT debate put on ice

    Robert Carling | 28 May 2010

    In the heat of debate about the emotively named ‘resource super profits tax’ (RSPT), it can be difficult to keep track ...

  4. The Quest for the Holy Grail of Tax

    Robert Carling | 07 May 2010

    The Henry tax plan that burst onto the stage last Sunday was dryly and perhaps optimistically titled Australia’s Future ...

  5. Cracking taxes

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 16 Apr 2010

    You wouldn’t usually expect to find baking recipes in court judgments, but Justice Sundberg of the Federal Court in Melbourne ...

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