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Material related to the 1984 Panel of Review of the proposed Income and Assets Test comprising documents circulated to panel members, miscellaneous working papers and printed material, some with annotations. Professor Gruen served as chairman for the Panel of Review. It also contains a Transcript of Evidence (Draft) and Submissions made to the Panel's supervising body, The Senate Standing Committee.

1. Estimated cost to revenue of tax expenditures, by functional classification. Budget statements, 1982-1983 (Attachment A), p.269-283 -- 2. Retirement and other employment termination benefits. Budget statements, 1983-1984 (Attachment), p.293-295.

Contents: 1. Military pensions -- 2. Veterans' medical care

Contents: 1. Travel concessions -- 2. Reduced charges -- 3. Legal assistance -- 4. Miscellaneous

Contents: 1. Travel concessions -- 2. Reduced charges -- 3. Legal assistance -- 4. Miscellaneous

Includes 'Administrative feasibility and cost of income and assets test options' (paper)

1. History of income and asset testing in Australia 1908-1983 (F.H. Gruen, some notations) -- 2. Background to income and assets test (DSSS History) -- 3. The proposed income and assets test (DSSS explantion of) --4. Cost of tax reliefs for pension schemes : appropriate statistical approach

Includes 'The 'tall poppies' proposal and Sydney house prices' (paper)

A submission in support of the Resolution, carried unanimously, at the recent National Conference of the Association of Civilian Widows, held in Sydney on the 9th and 10th March 1984 - 'that the Association make the needs of dependent children of Civilian Widows their main priority'.

1. Retirement income: the ageing and the family project survey, Sydney, 1981 -- 2. Retirement income: effects of employment, living arrangement, age and sex

1. Lump Sum - Tax Statistics -- 2. NSW house valuations -- 3. Secretariat analysis of issues raised in correspondence -- 4. Asset Test draft -- 5. BLMR statistics on welfare recipients, &c -- 6. Wealth estimates -- 7. Bruce Paul's calculations -- 8. Age pensioners by age & rate, DSS statistics -- 9. Statistical information

Extract from Social Welfare Policy Secretariat. Commonwealth Spending on Income Support Between 1968-69 and 1978-79 and Why it Increased

Photocopies of select pages from Chapter 1: Net Wealth Taxes

Comprises 'Housing' (chapter 5) and summaries of other chapters.

A research study funded by the Australian Government thorugh the former Social Welfare Commission as one of a number of studies concerned with researching areas of concern in social welfare.

Includes: 1. List of statistical publications -- 2. List of research papers -- 3. Ten year statistical summary, 1973-1982 /? Department of Social Security, Statistics Section.

Includes: 1. The proposed income and assets test -- 2. Background to income and assets test -- 3. Bill for an Act to amend the Social Security Act (1947) and the Repatriation Act (1920) and for related purposes -- 4. Social Security and Repatriation (pensions income and assets test) Bill, 1983 - ssecond reading -- 5. Social Security and Repatriation (pensions income and assets test) Bill, 1983 - explanatory memorandum.