Appendix B

Appendix B

Public Hearings and Witnesses

1. Friday, 22 October 1999, Canberra

    Mr John Ralph

    Department of the Treasury
    Mr Greg Smith, Executive Director, Budget Group
    Mr Bruce Paine, General Manager, Business Entities and International Division
    Mr Dan Buchler, Acting General Manager, Business Income and Industry Policy Division
    Mr Scott Bartley, Analyst, Coordination Unit, Business Entities and International Taxation Division

    Australian Taxation Office
    Dr Alan Preston, Second Commissioner of Taxation
    Mr Kevin Fitzpatrick, First Assistant Commissioner

2. Thursday, 11 November 1999, Canberra

    Dr Jane Gravelle (video link from Washington DC, USA)

    Professor Alan Auerbach (video link from Berkeley, Ca, USA)

    Professor Rick Krever, Director, Taxation and Policy Research Institute, Deakin University

    The Hon Ralph Willis

    Australian Council of Trade Unions
    Mr Grant Belchamber, Senior Research Officer and Advocate

    Dr Matt Benge, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, Australian National University

    Mr Geoff Lehmann, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

    Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia Ltd
    Mr Rob Bastian, Chief Executive

    Mr Peter Simpson, Former Second Commissioner, Australian Taxation Office

    Associate Professor Chris Evans, ATAX, University of New South Wales

3. Friday, 12 November 1999, Canberra

    Professor Peter Dixon, Director, Centre for Policy Studies and IMPACT Project, Monash University

    Mr Chris Murphy, ECONTECH

    Mr Alan Reynolds, Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Research Hudson Institute (video link from Washington DC)

    Dr John Edwards, Senior Economist, HSBC

    Department of the Treasury
    Mr Greg Smith, Executive Director, Budget Group
    Mr Bruce Paine, General Manager, Business Entities and International Division
    Mr Dan Buchler, Acting General Manager, Business Income and Industry Policy Division
    Mr Scott Bartley, Analyst, Coordination Unit, Business Entities and International Taxation Division

    Australian Taxation Office
    Dr Alan Preston, Second Commissioner of Taxation
    Mr Kevin Fitzpatrick, First Assistant Commissioner