Sinclair Davidson

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Taxing Tobacco into Illegality: how split responsibilities and high excise created Australia’s tobacco wars
Sinclair DavidsonNovember 27, 2025AP95

Executive Summary Australia’s tobacco control policy has reached a breaking point. For decades, bans on...

The Unworkable Solution: An Economic Assessment of a Cashflow Tax for Australia
Sinclair DavidsonNovember 6, 2025AP93

Executive Summary Australia faces persistent economic challenges. Productivity growth has slowed, business investment is uneven,...

Taxploitation II: Tax Reform for Incentive,Productivity and Economic Growth
John Humphreys, Robert Carling, Sinclair Davidson, Stephen KirchnerJuly 13, 2011R12

This volume brings together papers on different aspects of tax reform published by the CIS...

The Faulty Arguments Behind Australia’s Corporate Tax
Sinclair DavidsonAugust 23, 2008PM87

In Australia, the primary function of taxation is to finance government spending. Its secondary objectives...

Tax Competition: Much To Do About Very Little
Sinclair DavidsonOctober 15, 2007PM78

Sinclair Davidson challenges the notion of ‘harmful’ international tax competition. He argues that in the...

Fiscal Illusion: How Big Government Makes Tax Look Small
Sinclair DavidsonOctober 1, 2007PM81

Rather than focusing on any particular tax or level of government, Sinclair Davidson in this...

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