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Operational expenditure review: Insurance and Care NSW (icare)

In November 2023, the Minister for Work Health and Safety (the minister) instructed NSW Treasury to conduct an operational expenditure review of icare.

NSW Treasury has conducted a high-level review of the efficiency, effectiveness and appropriateness of icare’s operational expenditure. The review focuses on icare’s net cost of services (NCOS) – those controllable business costs incurred by icare to deliver its different insurance and care schemes on behalf of the community and government. icare’s underlying commercial model and overall net expenses (including claims handling expenses incurred by its insurance and care schemes) were beyond the scope of this review.

TRP 24-25 Examining the macroeconomic costs of occupational entry regulations

This paper quantifies the stringency of occupational entry regulations (OER) across a sample of occupations in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria. It then assesses the impact of OER stringency on measures of economic dynamism to help understand their economic costs.

TRP24-13 Interstate Comparison of Taxes 2023-24

This paper contains summaries of major tax initiatives for Australian states and territories, updating the interstate comparison of taxes series with interstate tax measures for the FY2023-24 period. 

TRP23-26 The Structural Budget Balance of New South Wales

This paper explores using the NSW Treasury Intergenerational Report (TIGR) model to estimate the NSW structural budget balance.

TRP23-05 First Nations Women’s Economic Participation Review: Pathways to Prosperity

The First Nations Women’s Economic Participation Strategy provides a baseline of current First Nations women’s economic participation and identifies five priorities to empower First Nations women to realise their economic potential.

TRP23-07 Trends in productivity: What should we expect?

This paper tests whether an additive growth model explains productivity growth better than the exponential growth model typically used and explores some of the implications of using an additive model.

TRP23-15 Interstate Comparison of Taxes 2022-23

This paper contains summaries of major tax initiatives for Australian states and territories, updating the Interstate Comparison of Taxes series with interstate tax measures for the FY2022-23 period. 

TRP22-31 First Nations Business Sector Technical Research Paper

The inaugural First Nations Business Sector Technical Research Paper provides the first New South Wales-specific analysis of the size and nature of the First Nations business sector and sets a baseline against which the sector’s growth can be measured over time

TRP22-26 Interstate Comparison of Taxes 2018/19 - 2021/22

This paper contains summaries of major tax initiatives for Australian states and territories, updating the Interstate Comparison of Taxes series with four years of interstate tax measures for the period covering FY2018-19 to FY2021-22.

TRP22-18 Property Tax Reform and Home Ownership

This paper examines the potential increase in home ownership that could arise if the NSW Government replaced stamp duty and the existing land tax with a broad-based property tax levied on unimproved land values.