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The Fiscal Impact of New Australians model (FIONA) has been developed by the Treasury to estimate the fiscal impact of permanent migrants over their remaining lifetimes in Australia. This paper presents the methodological approach used in FIONA, along with the main modelling results.
The goal of this report is to provide a framework for improving the taxation of savings in Australia over the medium to long term and to demonstrate a consistent approach for evaluating policy proposals to change existing savings taxes.
This paper estimates an Inequality Deflator for the Australian economy, which represents the distributional trade-offs that exist within the current tax and transfer system.
This paper uses Australian tax return data and techniques from the gender pay gap literature to explore whether men in similar economic circumstances to women claim more deductions on their tax return.