tax

Aggressive tax avoidance is often the consequence of powerfully self-interested CEOs and their empire-building managers.

Efforts by the Australian Government to make the superannuation system fairer have failed to flow through to lower-income earners.

COVID-19 has effectively put an end to off-market share buyback schemes, as companies look to conserve their cash holdings. It couldn’t come at a better time.

While the 2016 Panama Papers investigation revealed unprecedented tax avoidance, a new study unearths another role offshore entities play: helping those involved avoid governments confiscating their property.

Australian small business owners rarely take advantage of free trade agreements. This needs to change.

Papua New Guinea is a resource rich nation, with significant reserves of gas, copper, gold and zinc. Understandably, there is a desire to generate tax revenue by taxing the rent associated with these natural reserves, but there is also significant disagreement about the best way to do this in the PNG context.

While Australian banks are facing a new tax from the 2017 federal budget, the government has passed over another major sector – the petroleum industry, according to a Monash Business School resources taxation expert.

The upstream global oil and gas industry is currently in crisis due to "low oil price shock".