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In his 2017/18 budget speech, South Africa’s finance minister Pravin Gordhan opted to focus on taxing high income earners to find desperately needed money.
Arguments about reducing the tax burden of companies tend to get associated with rabid neoliberals. Here’s why they needn’t be.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said that Australia spends more at a Commonwealth level on negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts than it does on child care or higher education. Is he right?
A 2014 memo from the RBA is being used like a political football in the current election campaign, but this was never its intended purpose.
Think tank makes case for cutting capital gains tax discount.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has warned that Labor’s negative gearing policy would deliver “massive shocks” to the residential housing market and drive all investors away. Does that claim stack up?
Malcolm Turnbull has not totally removed changes to capital gains tax from the options on the tax table – despite appearing to do so in Question Time.
The problem is there are already too many buyers willing to pay high prices, and negative gearing is designed to create more buyers willing to pay more.
Fairfax-Ipsos’ first poll of 2016 has the government ahead 52-48% on the two-party vote and Malcolm Turnbull leading Bill Shorten 64-19% as preferred prime minister. While the numbers for the Coalition…
Bill Shorten has unveiled tax changes that will tighten negative gearing and capital gains tax provisions, saving $565 million over the forward estimates and $32.1 billion over a decade.
A suggestion to remove the exemption on capital gains tax on main residences is something no politician will touch.
Tax systems are notoriously bad for doing things other than raising revenue.
Current Australian tax rules are distorting decisions of investors, which is why the Cayman Islands remains so attractive.
The issue of how to measure capital gains in “real terms” - that is, over the years they arose, rather than over a financial year, is at the heart of capital gains reform.
Even when everyone agrees on the need for reform, there’s no guarantee we’ll ever see it happen.
Real estate is favourably taxed in Australia, and it will continue to bite the housing market unless there is serious reform.
Australia’s current tax system distorts investor behaviour. Rethinking the entire structure could shift things for the better.
Treasurer Joe Hockey’s media comments this week around contentious tax issues don’t bode well for the Taxation White paper.
Further reading: Little hard data in the area of foreign investment Don’t be misled on Chinese foreign investment: read the facts Don’t blame foreign investment for rising house prices Explainer: why negative…
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