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		<title>Pay the Rent, Boys</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/26/pay-the-rent-boys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 00:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: ~Brenda-Starr~ Letter to the Editor &#8211; AFR 25/05/2010 Bryan Kavanagh, Glen Waverley Ross Garnaut and Ken Henry are undoubtedly correct about the benefits of the so-called super-profits ‘tax’ on miners. It’s actually a resource rent and acts vastly differently from a tax. Where taxes notoriously fine and destroy industry and production, natural resource [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrying through the Henry Logic</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/11/carrying-through-the-henry-logic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 00:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Hexadecimal Time Letter to the Editor - Aust Financial Review Dr Terry Dwyer (Read Dr Dwyer&#8217;s Henry Review Submission) The Henry Tax Review has rightly acknowledged the fundamental economic principle that a tax on land (including resource) rents is the ultimate non-distorting tax. Whether a resource rent tax is the best way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At last, payment for the owners</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/06/at-last-payment-for-the-owners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 21:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: pfala Letter to the Editor THE AGE, MAY 4: Bryan Kavanagh, Glen Waverley WHEN an owner leases out his or her former business as a going concern, i.e. the freehold and the business, it is not uncommon for the net profit before income tax and depreciation to be split equally between the landlord [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make up your mind</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/04/26/make-up-your-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Hassed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a letter published in The Sunday Age on the 25th of May. Real estate agents and their constant spruiking of the “boom” had finally gotten up my nose. They go around crowing about the rising prices while ordinary Australians get priced out of the market. When you really think about it who benefits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crikey &#8211; Negative gearing</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/04/08/crikey-negative-gearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Darco TT Letter to the Editor Crikey E-Newsletter Dr. Gavin R. Putland, Director, Land Values Research Group, Prosper Australia, writes: Re. &#8220;Kevin, will that be two terms, or four?&#8221; (yesterday, item 16). No, Nicholas Gruen, don&#8217;t cap negative gearing, because no matter how generous the cap is, the speculators will still scream about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restrict negative gearing to new construction</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/03/29/restrict-negative-gearing-to-new-construction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: aphasiafilms Letter to the Editor David Collyer Balwyn THANK YOU, Tim Colebatch, for your clear-eyed review of our hopelessly distorted housing market (&#8221;Housing at these prices will leave us all a heavy debt to bear&#8221;, Comment, 23/3). Your solution &#8211; to quarantine negative gearing &#8211; invites the property spivs to (again) deafen us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Flat-Rate Land Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/03/19/time-for-flat-rate-land-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: mugley Letter to the Editor David Barkly Nunawading Speculators have excelled themselves with their land banking. A realistic flat-rate land tax would discourage speculation. It would be equitable because land values rise due to community action, including the provision of infrastructure such as railways, roads, public buildings and other facilities, not through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land banking</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/03/12/land-banking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Hassed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got to love real estate spruikers. They are so consistent and always so wrong. David Morrell purports to be a buyers&#8217; advocate. On 5th March in The Age he was saying how you can&#8217;t go wrong with &#8220;land banking&#8221; in Toorak. Well maybe. Land banking is the quite revolting activity of buying up desirable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make a stand</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2009/09/12/make-a-stand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2009/09/12/make-a-stand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=1438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: eqqman Letter to the Editor Andrew Gunter Hawthorn East THE Housing Industry Association&#8217;s Gil King says that &#8220;any policies that aim to speed up development applications and increase Victoria&#8217;s housing stock are welcomed&#8221; (The Age, 10/9). So does the HIA support the replacement of stamp duty and payroll tax with land tax collecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Site Value Should Rule on Setting Rates</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2009/08/26/site-value-should-rule-on-setting-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: tholmb Letter to the Editor &#8211; The Post (W.A) Niels Charlier Jolimont Dear Editor, Re your report, &#8221; &#8216;Wrong&#8217; rates ping home builder&#8221; (POST 15/8). Gill Vivian is absolutely right when she says she is being penalised for helping to improve her suburb, and that the system is wrong. The alternative is however [...]]]></description>
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