Director
P: +61 2 6100 6363
E: jwallace@thinkSapere.com
John provides advice on a wide range of issues including infrastructure, transport, health, education, taxation, regulation, industry and trade reform.
He specialises in: businesses case preparation; program evaluations; detailed financial and economic analysis; costing, pricing and funding model design; and tax reform (using welfare economics, cost benefit analysis, real options analysis, general equilibrium analysis and econometrics).
John holds a BEc (Hons) from the ANU and has over 35 years of experience working as an economist for Ernst & Young; Arthur Andersen; the NZ IRD, Treasury, and Ministry of Health; and the Australian Industries Assistance Commission (Productivity Commission).
Leading tax consultancy OliverShaw commissioned Sapere to prepare a report on the effective rates of tax imposed on the incomes of New Zealand residents. We use statistical data to identify groups of taxpayers and welfare beneficiaries with levels and types of wealth and economic income that are reasonably “illustrative” of the general population of taxpayers ...
