The federal government says it’s committed to addressing the challenges faced by younger generations, including housing affordability and the high cost of living. Does the budget deliver on its promises?
L’expertise universitaire, l’exigence journalistique
Articles sur Capital gains
Ensemble des articles
Negative gearing is popular because it lowers home owners’ tax bills. But its critics say it has reduced affordable housing stock keeping the less well off out of the market.
Even changing the tax system won’t end steadily-climbing property prices. They are the result of urbanisation, and while COVID has eased some of the pressures, it has added some more.
Alan Kohler’s Quarterly Essay lays out how the policies of successive governments have not only failed to address housing problems, but actively created them.
The wealthiest Australians are taxed differently from the rest of us, because they earn much of their money in a different way.
Middle- and low-income households are being priced out of owning their homes as average house prices reach levels last seen in the 2000s.
A new report found that America’s top billionaires paid very little income tax despite tremendous gains in their wealth.
In some quarters, the median Sydney home earns more from capital gains than the median worker earns from wages. Now’s a good time to wind back the measures that push prices up.
The Trump administration is considering a change to capital gains that could be a windfall for the rich. A scholar explains what they are and how they’re taxed.
The Trump administration is considering a change to how capital gains taxes are calculated that would save investors roughly $100 billion over a decade.
Housing affordability has declined significantly over the past few decades. Slowly reducing negative gearing and capital gains, and switching to property taxes, could reverse this trend.
Les contributeurs les plus fréquents
-
Professor of Political Science; Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania
-
Research fellow, Housing and Community Research Unit (HACRU), University of Tasmania
-
Research Fellow - Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
-
Professor Emeritus, Economics & Finance, University of Houston-Clear Lake
-
Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Michigan
-
Research Fellow & Deputy Director, HACRU, University of Tasmania
-
Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt University
-
Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
-
Professor of Real Estate, Heriot-Watt University
-
Head of Finance and Macroeconomics, Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL
-
Assistant Teaching Professor of Accounting, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria
-
Senior Lecturer in Urbanism, University of Sydney
-
Associate professor, Western Sydney University
-
Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra
