The Politics of Retirement Savings Taxation A Trans-Tasman Comparison

The Politics of Retirement Savings Taxation: A Trans-Tasman Comparison addresses one of the most important social and economic issues in modern welfare states: public policy for retirement savings. This book explores the events, environment and personalities that combined to form the current policy arrangements in Australia and New Zealand.

Feature:

• An historical account of the development of retirement savings policies in New Zealand and Australia
   
• An analysis of how and why Australia and New Zealand adopted different approaches to the taxation of retirement savings
   
• An in-depth evaluation of the institutional arrangements infl uencing retirement savings policy
   
• Tables outlining comparative international retirement savings performance