The Australian Tax‐Transfer System: Architecture and Outcomes

Peter Whiteford

The Economic Record, 2010, vol. 86, issue 275, 528-544

Abstract: This article evaluates the Australian tax-transfer system in an international comparative perspective, discussing the distributional profile of Australian transfers compared with those in other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, and assessing the efficiency and effectiveness of the Australian system in terms of impacts on income inequality and providing assistance to poor households.

Keywords: H24; H55; I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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