Asked to choose the fairest ways to raise billions, half of the economists backed introducing inheritance taxes. Around a third chose winding back super tax concessions and increased resource taxes.
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The wealthiest Australians are taxed differently from the rest of us, because they earn much of their money in a different way.
Australian landlords pay $1 billion less tax per year than the Tax Office believes they should, with almost all of the ‘errors’ in their favour.
The Australian government’s spending on its biggest tax concessions has jumped 24% in the past year.
More housing supply doesn’t mean lower prices. If policy-makers want to make homes more affordable, they must tackle developers who drive up prices and consider taxing capital gains on homes.
The NSW Coalition government has backed a Labor proposal rubbished by the federal Coalition at the last two elections.
President Biden wants to raise the capital gains tax that wealthy people pay and use the extra revenue to fund new social spending on children and education.
We’ve plenty of homes. Rents have barely moved for half a decade
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.
Top contributors
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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 of Taxation Law, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Australian National University
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Professor, School of Taxation and Business Law, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Commercial Law and Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Research Fellow - Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Economy and Society, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University
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Program Director, Trade and Investment, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor in Accounting (Retired), Deakin University
