This report looks at the economic, social and employment impacts of the recent mergers among Australian banks.

In response to the global financial crisis the government introduced two guarantee schemes for authorised deposit-taking institutions, one for deposits and one for wholesale funding. This report assesses the schemes and makes recommendations for future arrangements.

Dialogue between states with widely diverging tax systems has emerged as a key feature of international efforts to regulate tax havens. As these initiatives have unfolded there has been a transition away from regulation by command and control towards responsive regulatory dialogue in which tax havens have been encouraged to cooperate through engagement and active...

Running 24-25 July 2003 at the Australian National University, this third international research conference brought together knowledge that CTSI has gained over the last three years about applying responsive regulation to the area of taxation. The 2003 conference mapped out some of the issues that will be critical to both tax policy and tax administration...