Resources

NFAW submissions

NFAW submission on taxation. This submission calls for a redesign of the Australian taxation system so that is fairer to women.

NFAW submission on retirement incomes. In its submission to the Henry Inquiry into the Future of Australia's Tax System, NFAW calls on government to reform the Age Pension by creating a centralised retirement insurance plan for low-income earners and increasing the single pension rate, and to introduce policies to encourage women to work such as a national paid parental leave scheme.

Web links

Australia's Future Tax System: This is the home page of the Treasury Tax Review, with links to consultation papers on Australia's future tax system and on retirement income.

The Pension Review is a separate review, which will feed into the Review into Australia's Future Tax System.

Tax Expenditures Statement (TES) which provides details of concessions, benefits, incentivs and charges provided through the tax system to taxpayers by the Australian Government. TES lists around 320 tax expenditures and, where possible, reports the estimated pecuniary value or order of magnitude of the benefit to taxpayers over an eight year period from 2004-5 to 2011-12.

Women with Disabilities Australia website

Australian Bureau of Statistics website

NATSEM website: a research centre at the University of Canberra

Centre for Economics Policy Research - discussion paper series

Useful reading

She works hard for the money is the April 2009 AMP.NATSEM Income and Wealth Report. Discusses the gaps that remain between men and women in paid and unpaid work, in wealth, income and superannuation.

Women Carers in Financial Stress Report prepared by the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling for Carers Australia.

Paving the Way for Older Women in the Workforce 2025: A literature review of Australian women's labour market participation and their retirement incomes

Women, Work and Retirement: A longitudinal study on women's health commissioned by the Commonwealth Office for Women

Pension demand surges 50% Article by Mark Metherill on the increasing number of age pensions being granted, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 January 2009

Women's Experiences of Paid Work and Planning for Retirement: research commissioned by the Office for Women into how women's experiences of paid work influences their planning for retirement.

AMP.NATSEM reports. Since 2001, AMP and the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) have produced a series of reports on the wealth and income of Australians.

Taxation, Labour Supply and Saving: Discussion paper by Patricia Apps and Ray Rees for the ANU Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Population Ageing, Taxation, Pensions and Health Costs: Discussion Paper by Patricia Apps, Ray Rees and Margi Wood for the ANU Centre for Economic Policy Research

Improving work incentives for mothers: the national and geographic impact of liberalising the Family Tax Benefit income test: Paper by Ann Harding et al, presented at the 37th Australian Conference of Economists, Gold Coast, 1 Oct 2008.

Aspects of the Australian Tax System: A Preliminary Outline. An information paper prepared by TaxWatch, a community information services on tax policy issues based at the University of New South Wales and Monash University, and convened by Professor Julian Disney and Peter Mellor.

Some Comparative Perspectives on the Australian Tax System Another background paper prepared by TaxWatch for the National Tax Reform Symposium, providing some broad perspectives on comparisons between tax systems in Australia and other OECD countries.

Taxation of Personal Income, Assets and Saving: Some Problems and Options An issues paper prepared by TaxWatch for the National Tax Reform Symposium.