Treasury considered dividend imputation policy reform before 2017 budget

It created a file on the issue more than a year before Labor announced it would target the tax refunds of more than one million Australians on Tuesday. 

Dividend imputation. Labor to become the party of personal tax cuts

• OPINION

The move on dividend imputation is about more than just plugging company tax leakage.

Meet the MP who actually wants to know what works

• OPINION

Politicians are forever promising programs they say are ''evidence-based'', but they are usually less than keen on conducting the experiments needed to obtain that evidence. Andrew Leigh is different.

Australia surges to 10th highest average tax rate as government woos sceptical Senate crossbench

Australia has rocketed to the 10th highest average tax rate among 43 of the world's leading economies in a decade.

Parliamentary Budget Office says company tax cuts do not put surplus at risk

The Turnbull government's $65 billion cuts can be implemented without putting the budget balance at risk

Relax, there's no need to follow Trump on company tax - yet

• OPINION

When US companies got a tax cut, they give a big slice of it back to their shareholders. It’s probably what you would do if you got an income tax cut. You’d spend a little on yourself, and only later think about working harder.

TPP: New Zealand sheds light on the deal Australia is about to sign

New Zealand has released the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership 11 trade agreement.

Uber drives surge in small business

Uber is driving a surge in the number of registered Australian businesses, the biggest since the recovery from the global financial crisis.

If it's a crisis for the Environmental Water Holder it's a crisis for us

• ANALYSIS

David Papps was more than a water bureaucrat, and more than a water user.