By international standards, Australia’s business tax system combines a high company tax rate of 30 per cent with low taxation of domestic investors through dividend imputation. This prioritising of domestic investors over foreign investors is at odds with the evidence in this paper that the marginal investor is foreign. Better aligning Australia’s business tax system...

This review contains the Productivity Commission's latest quantitative estimates of Australian government assistance to industry. This year's review also explores how Australia should best respond to the USA using its leverage to protect their domestic industries.

This Report Card shows that there are a lot of policies on offer and that these provide significantly varying levels of benefits, cover and gaps. Furthermore, it highlights the significant variation that can occur on a State-by-State basis.

This report argues that government regulation and subsidies are driving up the prices of key household expenditure items and putting strain on family budgets.

Industry assistance schemes are seen sceptically in New Zealand policy circles but the NZIER modelling shows that the New Zealand Screen Production Grant, as the price of admission to international screen productions, positively influences the wider economy.