Posts Tagged ‘capital gain’

Empty Dwellings During Housing Crisis?

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Today’s Sydney Morning Herald article on Empty Dwellings in a City Desperate for Places to Live has exposed the raft of vacancies prevalent when land banking trumps housing affordability. It quotes how 122,211 sites were vacant in the 2006 census, reminding us of the findings from the I Want to Live Here report. Negative gearing [...]

Land Tax Lobbyists active as State Budget approaches

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Todays Age article on Land Tax Cuts Wont Bring Savings alerts all those interested in defending the communities right to a share of the free lunch land prices reflect. The next few weeks will see the property lobby step up their claims to pay less and less of the one tax their army of accountants [...]