The OECD’s recent Tax Policy Reforms 2018 – which covers latest tax trends among 35 countries – shows that several member countries have lowered taxes on businesses and individuals as part of their 2018 tax reforms.
Contrary to some expectations, this week the Tax Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Plan) Act 2018 was passed by the Senate, and received Royal Assent.
For several years now, KPMG has argued that the potential changes to the tax and transfer system need to be evaluated through a prism of gender equity.
The Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO), released yesterday, presents an interesting close to a year that commenced with a glimmer of hope of grand tax reform. We learnt…
Parliament resumed this week after its long post-election break. But there is a legislative proposal to be debated which threatens to erode Australia’s brand as a destination for investment in…
No one can predict the future – but we can be relatively confident that the Australian tax system in 2025 will bear the imprint of changes we are already seeing.
The expression “work related expenses” (WRE) is a label which refers to expenses claimed by an employee to be deductible on the basis that they are incurred in producing their…
Tax reform is generally evaluated based on efficiency, equity and simplicity. There is also sustainability, consistency, transparency and stability, but what is often left out of the equation is gender.…
At the AFR/KPMG Tax Reform Summit this week, one issue received a perhaps surprising amount of consensus. This was the notion, put forward by former treasury secretary Martin Parkinson at…
