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Without making housing supply the priority, the government’s tax-based policies create more objectives than they can reasonably achieve.
In politics, what lifts you up can drag you down. To avoid that, Jacinda Ardern’s Labour government will have to examine its political soul.
Both major parties refuse to grasp the nettle of New Zealand’s narrow and inherently unfair tax base.
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.
It would be a mistake to think that just because higher earners face higher tax rates, that’s what they pay. When it comes to income from savings it’s the other way around.
Claiming for working for home is fraught. It’s safest to claim the running expenses the tax office allows. ‘Occupancy expenses’ are harder to justify and could cost you your capital gains tax discount.
Westpac and the ANZ have suspended dividends payments. The National Australia Bank has slashed them. The peculiarities of our tax system explain why retirees hate this more than they should.
Every Democratic presidential candidate plans to raise taxes on wealthier Americans and corporations, but they differ in how to get there.
The real estate industry acts in its own interests, not those of the tenants it scares.
Houses will be worth more or less what they would have been, if Labor’s policies are adopted, NSW Treasury analysis says.
When vested interests are attacked they create myths and battle plans. It’s the surest sign you are on the right track.
Establishing artists could benefit if New Zealand introduces a proposed capital gains tax that excludes any profit made on the sale of collectables and artworks.
The heated debate about New Zealand’s proposed introduction of a capital gains tax overlooks the fact it would bring tax cuts for most New Zealanders.
At times we are told Labor’s capital gains tax policy will hit mainly high earners. At other times, low earners. The truth, uncovered by our microsimulation model, tells us something about ourselves.
The best time to shut down negative gearing is when few people are taking it up. That time is now.
The Trump administration is considering a change to how capital gains taxes are calculated that would save investors roughly $100 billion over a decade.
New modelling shows negative gearing and capital gains taxes can be reformed in a way that doesn’t impact poorer investors.
Who is entitled to the increase in value created by planning approvals, new infrastructure, population growth or urban development? For John Stuart Mill, the answer would have been the community.
Australians are in favour of housing affordability changes that the government still doesn’t support, an ANU poll shows.
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Commercial Law and Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW Sydney
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, POLIS@ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Taxation and Business Law, UNSW Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow - Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Financial Planning, Deakin University
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Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
