Obfuscating Economic rent

photo credit: Laurie | Liquid Paper The agenda of landowners never changes: shifting taxes off land onto labor and capital is a battle fought every day in every way. Dr Gavin Putland has an excellent letter in the Australian Financial Review today. Recommended...

Australia’s world-beating real estate

photo credit: pierre pouliquin The seventh annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey is out.  Australia is still a world-beater: our house prices are judged Severely Unaffordable in almost every city.  Sydney comes second to land-constrained Hong...

A grounded tax system for australia

You are cordially invited to an interactive seminar: A Grounded Tax System for Australia by David Collyer photo credit: Nuytsia@Tas Why work for wages when tax takes the cream? Why risk a business when government sucks your blood? And why landowners make our lives...