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Tax

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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. TARGET30: Reducing the burden for future generations

    David Murray AO, Maurice Newman, Simon Cowan | 01 Jul 2013 | Policy Forum

    TARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government and cutting government spending to less than 30% of GDP in the next 10... Read More...

  2. TARGET30: Towards smaller government and future prosperity

    Peter Saunders, Robert Carling, Simon Cowan | 06 Mar 2013 | TARGET30 Research Papers

    TARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government, supported by a series of research reports providing policy solutions... Read More...

  3. TARGET30 SNAPSHOT: Towards smaller government and future prosperity

    Simon Cowan | 06 Mar 2013 | TARGET30 Snapshots

    TARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government, supported by a series of research reports providing policy solutions... Read More...

  4. Compulsory Super at 20: ‘Libertarian Paternalism’ Without the Libertarianism

    Stephen Kirchner | 25 Nov 2012 | Policy Monographs

    Examines the economic case for compulsory superannuation contributions and questions whether compulsory super is the most... Read More...

  5. The Condensed Wealth of Nations and The Incredibly Condensed Theory of Moral Sentiments

    Eamonn Butler | 12 Jun 2012 | Occasional Papers

    In The Condensed Wealth of Nations, Eamonn Butler condenses Adam Smith’s work and explains the key concepts in The Wealth... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Why tax-free imports are a retail red herring

    Stephen Kirchner | 24 Jun 2013 | Business Spectator

    Retailers would be better served lobbying government for policies other than raising inefficient taxes on low value imports.... Read More

  2. It’s time for surgery: the public purse is in dire health

    Simon Cowan | 26 Apr 2013 | The Australian Financial Review

    Reducing inefficient spending may harm vested interests, but meaningful reform cannot occur if no one is ever allowed to ... Read More

  3. The magic pudding state

    Benjamin Herscovitch | 23 Apr 2013 | The Drum

    Australians want government to spend more money on us, but we do not want to hand any more of our cash over to the tax office.... Read More

  4. Better ideas than raising super guarantee

    Stephen Kirchner | 28 Nov 2012 | Australian Financial Review

    Is compulsory super improving retirement incomes and reducing future demands on the budget from an ageing population?... Read More

  5. Fairness is not equality

    Steven Schwartz | 26 Nov 2012 | Australian Financial Review

    Income equality is not achievable, it is not desirable and it is not fair.... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. The elusive budget surplus

    Robert Carling | 17 May 2013

    The idea that we will have a balanced budget by 2015-16 should be met with healthy scepticism....

  2. Tax rises are not savings

    Simon Cowan | 17 May 2013

    This budget is further evidence that governments remain addicted to spending, and that is why it is time for TARGET30....

  3. Fiscal fixes

    Robert Carling | 03 May 2013

    Australia has a size-of-government problem rather than a revenue shortfall....

  4. What is a fair share?

    Robert Carling | 15 Mar 2013

    What does a fair share of tax actually mean?...

  5. Mining tax as a federalism issue

    Robert Carling | 01 Mar 2013

    The messy MRRT that we now have co-exists with state royalties which creates the undesirable possibility of ‘double taxation.’...

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