Report
National Energy Emissions Audit: electricity update - July 2018
This audit shows current policies will reduce National Electricity Market (NEM) emissions to 22% below 2005 levels in 2019-20, effectively meaning electricity sector has an emissions reduction target of only 4% to 2030.
Briefing paper
High income earners get almost the entire benefit of stage 3 of the governments tax plan
This analysis of stage three of the government’s income tax plan shows high-income earners will get 95% of the benefit, while three-quarters of taxpayers get no benefit at all.
Discussion paper
Bracket creep: the imaginary monster
This analysis of the long term impacts of bracket creep shows that Australian taxpayers at all income levels have received more in tax cuts than they have lost through bracket creep – in other words, they have already been overcompensated for bracket creep.
Discussion paper
Gini out of the bottle
This discussion paper, released as part of the Inequality Roundtable, shows inequality is getting worse in Australia, with the income share of the top 10% growing at the expense of everyone else.
Submission
Personal income tax cuts
This paper examines the Turnbull Government’s 2018 personal income tax proposals by presenting a distributional analysis of the tax cuts and then looking at some general tax principles and considerations that we can use to assess the present proposals.