A child support guideline is a formula used to calculate support payments based on a few family characteristics. Guidelines began replacing court awarded support payments in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and were later mandated by the federal government in 1988. Two fundamentally different types of guidelines are used: percentage of obligor income, and income shares models. This paper explore...

Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and his colleagues for supplying us with the microdata used in this analysis. Andrew Norton, John Quiggin, Maria Racionero, Chris Ryan, Susanne Schmidt, seminar participants at the ATO, Macquarie University and the University of Queensland, two anonymous referees and editor Paul Miller provided valuable comments and suggestions on earlier drafts. None of the abo...

Background: The purpose of this study is to design a model for managing the ethical and professional attitude of employees in government organizations. Method: The present research method is a mixed (qualitative-quantitative) research. In the qualitative part, the strategy used was the Foundationchr('39')s data theory (Grand Theory). The statistical population consisted of university professor...

The communication component of lobbying activity and the role media communications in achieving goals are considered on example formation legal field information technology (IT) industry conditions 2022. As an empirical material, public content initiated by large associations defending interests was chosen. consistent communicative coupling IT with activities Ministry Digital Development, Commu...

Businesses face significant obstacles in interacting with public administrations across Europe. On the other hand there is recently a clear trend of governments to deliver electronic services (“e-government”) through integrated, customer -oriented mechanisms (“one-stop government”). However, related efforts both within and outside the European Union – are nationally focused and do not address t...

In December 2008, the US Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, released a report, World At Risk. The Report points to the fact that, not only is the use of a weapon of mass destruction in a terrorist attack before the end of 2013, more likely than not, but also to the fact that terrorists are more likely to be able to obtain and use biological ...

If we are to build sustainable industries for sustainable societies, we need to ensure that sustainability gets incorporated into decision-making, whether those decisions are being made by governments, institutions, corporations, or individuals. This in turn requires that we have a concept of what sustainability is, have an idea of how to measure it, and bring these measures to the table when d...

If co-operating government agencies reside in different countries, they will differ in many respects: administrative ontologies and laws, political context, administrative culture, and computing infrastructure. Inter-organizational e-government services may provide technical interoperability, but do not necessarily solve the problem how to understand a foreign administration. In this paper, we ...