Concludes that although Australia is in general a low-tax country, company income, property and transaction taxes are well above the OECD average.

Business And Investment Operations Of Individuals And Companies Are Becoming Increasingly International In Scope In The Wake Of Current Wave Of Globalisation And Liberalisation Sweeping Across The Countries Of The World. Income Tax Systems Of Different Countries Differ In Terms Of Definition Of Income, Exemptions, Concesions, Rates And Collection Procedures. This Book Explains And Compares The Income Tax Provisions Of Six Countries, Three Developed Countries, Viz. The U.K., The U.S., And Australia And Three Developing Countries, Namely Malaysia, Pakistan And India. The Book Will Be Useful For A Cross-Section Of Readers Including Researchers, Teachers And Students Of Economics, Commerce, Law And Management.

This annual publication provides details of taxes paid on wages in OECD countries. It covers personal income taxes and social security contributions paid by employees, social security contributions and payroll taxes paid by employers, and cash benefits received by workers. Taxing Wages 2021 includes a special feature entitled: “Impact of COVID-19 on the Tax Wedge in OECD Countries”.

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the housing prices in Australia. Housing prices in Australia have increased strongly over the past two decades, including by comparison internationally. Thus housing prices are often argued to be overvalued. Many counter-arguments have been put forward for why such measures are flawed. This paper argues that housing prices are moderately stronger than consistent with current economic fundamentals, but less than a comparison to historical or international averages would suggest. International comparisons of price-to-income ratios suggest that Australia is broadly in line with comparator countries, although significant data comparability issues make inference difficult.