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Buying better income taxes with land taxes
Tax reform is more than changing income tax rates, it’s about shifting taxes off income altogether. This report explores one of the most recommended reforms.
Melbourne’s pandemic rental dynamics: an (un)natural experiment in excess supply
Melbourne’s pandemic experience presents an ideal natural experiment for what might happen if we ‘flooded the market’ with additional housing.
Planning deregulation, housing supply and affordability
In this discussion paper we explore the conceptual models of land rent deployed within the debate over planning deregulation, housing supply and housing affordability.
Staged Releases: Peering Behind the Land Supply Curtain
In this report we ask whether the private choices of property owners to supply new housing according to market conditions works against the stated public policy outcome of supply-driven affordability through rezoning.
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Buying better income taxes with better land taxes
3 million workers could benefit from tax shift
Prosper Australia today released new research highlighting the economic benefits of shifting taxes off income and onto ...
The Great Housing Hijack – a new book by Dr Cam Murray
The Great Housing Hijack is the latest book by Dr Cameron Murray.
Here at Prosper Australia we have been following Cameron's work for quite some time. Some of our ...
Why housing supply starts when speculation ends
Prosper’s Director of Research and Policy, Tim Helm, was interviewed by Cameron Murray for the Fresh Economic Thinking podcast on 9 November 2023.
Their conversation ...
How I learned to stop worrying and love land value uplift
Presentation to the Planning Institute of Australia's Victorian Conference, October 13, 2023
Today I want to take you on a rapid intellectual journey, a therapeutic ...
Landowners need to step up to the housing emergency – or get out of the way
Prosper Australia today welcomed the announcement that the Vacant Residential Land Tax (VRLT) will be expanded to include suburban undeveloped and regional sites.
Victoria’s Housing Statement – A promising start, the details will determine success
Victoria's new Housing Partnership shows a lot of promise. The devil will be in the detail. Prosper Australia unpacks the issues.
Australia: Made for Free Trade and a Tax on Rent
132nd Henry George Address by Professor Ross Garnaut
Australia: Made for Free Trade and a Tax on Rent
(Transcript of speech recorded at the Kelvin Club, Melbourne, 7 ...
In Australia, why do people who produce nothing get rewarded the most? – Waleed Aly
If we’re going to have to rethink our tax system, rent-seeking seems a good place to start. Perhaps if we taxed productive profit less than its unproductive counterpart, we’d have the seedlings of a system better designed to meet what the Intergenerational Report warns us is coming.
Changes to Stage 3 Not Enough: We Need a Tax Shift
February 1, 2024