ABOUT PROSPER AUSTRALIA
Our Vision
Our vision is a just and equitable society, created by ensuring everyone who benefits from our land, natural resources and natural monopolies pays a fair rent for their use.
We have everything we need. Our earth, and the bold achievements we have attained together through human progress, are more than enough to create a fair society where every person can benefit from our shared wealth.
With rising inequality and environmental degradation, it can be difficult to be optimistic about our future. Many of us who contribute to our society through hard work struggle to pay our bills. Meanwhile, those of us who hold rights over our natural resources are allowed to profit from value they did not create.
We believe that taxes on the hard-working, productive areas of society such as income tax, payroll tax, company tax and stamp duty need to be reduced. Instead, we should be taxing unearned streams of superprofits that derive from exclusive access to our finite natural resources including land, groundwater and minerals. A tax shift for Australia will take the pressure off workers and the productive sectors of our society while conserving that on which all economies depend: our natural environment.
At Prosper, we talk to policymakers, politicians and the public about the tax shift we need for our future. We can use our tax system as a powerful lever towards a stronger, more productive, fairer and more sustainable society.
Our Mission
Our Mission is to increase the proportion of economic rent in the tax base, ensuring the unearned income derived from land and natural resources is fairly taxed.
We aim to remove the excessive burden of taxes from income, thereby enabling enterprise to flourish and people to enjoy the fruits of their labour.
We aim to educate the community to understand land value, how it arises, how it is monopolised, and how it can be shared for the good, honouring the legacy of Henry George
Who is Prosper Australia?
Prosper Australia is one of the oldest social reform organisations in Australia.
Based on the simple idea that the earth belongs to everyone, we advocate for an economic system where every person can benefit from our shared wealth to live fuller, happier, and safer lives.
We believe that taxes on the hard-working, productive areas of society – such as income tax, payroll tax, company tax, and stamp duty – need to be reduced. Instead, we should tax unearned streams of superprofits that derive from exclusive access to our finite natural resources, including land, groundwater, and minerals.
We can use our tax system as a powerful lever towards a stronger, more productive, fairer, and sustainable society.
Shifting taxes in Australia will take the pressure off workers and the productive sectors of our society while conserving that on which all economies depend: our natural environment.
At Prosper, we talk to policymakers, politicians, and the public about the tax shift we need for our future.
Prosper Australia is an independent not-for-profit organisation governed by a volunteer Executive Committee. We are member-based and rely on the generous support of donors like you.
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