Impact of Commonwealth indirect taxes on exporters

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  • Preliminaries
    • Copyright, Foreword, Contents, Overview
  • 1   Background to the study
    • 1.1   Purpose of the study
    • 1.2   The Commission’s approach
    • 1.3   Report outline
  • 2   Indirect taxation arrangements
    • 2.1   The Commonwealth indirect tax system
    • 2.2   The New Zealand tax system
    • 2.3   Other systems
  • 3   Impact on manufacturing exporters
    • 3.1   Approach to the analysis
    • 3.2   Cost impacts
    • 3.3   The Commission’s assessment
  • 4   Economy wide effects
    • 4.1   Commonwealth indirect tax reform
    • 4.2   Wider reform
  • Appendix A   Terms of reference
  • Appendix B   Study participants
  • Appendix C   Modelling
    • C.1   Alternative tax regimes
    • C.2   Direct and indirect price effects
    • C.3   Effects on activity levels and economic wellbeing
  • Appendix D   Review of the modelling
  • References