In response to an 'Ask IFACCA' question from Keith Kelly of the Canada Council for the Arts we have prepared a short statement about making inter-country comparisons of government expenditure on the arts. This can be viewed at our research topics page here. The response highlights three research reports from 1998 and 2000. If you know of more up-to-date work or would like to share your opinion on this crucial issue, you can do this using IFACCA's new forum facility. Just log onto the IFACCA website [www.ifacca.org] with your email address and password, go to the 'browse more topics' link, click on the forum icon and post your comments.