Posts Tagged ‘site rental’
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
21 Nov 2011 Moonee Valley Leader Council’s three strikes HINDSIGHT (‘‘Cinema plan stalled’’, Leader, November 14) has confirmed what we suspected at the time: the first mistake by the former Moonee Valley Council commissioners was to close the Moonee Ponds Market. We lost fresh food retail variety. Their second mistake was to sell the market [...]
Tags: rates, site rental
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
photo credit: dcmaster Barry O’Farrell was elected Premier of NSW in March this year. His first budget announced Tuesday raised a storm of protest – not over a realignment of government priorities to his conservative Coalition’s agenda, but on Stamp Duty. The previous Keneally ALP government had exempted first home buyers (on houses up to [...]
Tags: David Collyer, FHOG, housing, housing affordability, land tax, site rental, tax reform, wealth gap
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Dr Gavin Putland of the Land Values Research Group drives a stake through a vampire heart in the Letters page of today’s Australian Financial Review Joanne Seve (Letters, August 5) regurgitates the property lobby’s favourite untruth, namely that land tax is passed on to tenants. In its crudest form, this argument expects the reader to [...]
Tags: Dr Gavin Putland, economic rent, land rent, land tax, site rental, tax reform
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
photo credit: mugley The Baillieu government has just received a major report into Victoria’s economic efficiency that offers a clear path to redesign state taxes, advance living standards and make Victoria an absolute magnet for employment and investment. “Ted Baillieu can write history and be Victoria’s Great Architect through tax reform.” Prosper Australia Campaign Manager [...]
Tags: Baillieu, economic rent, Henry review, land tax, site rental, tax reform, Victoria
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
A soundly-based Land Value Tax to reduce the taxes on labor and enterprise would restore the rewards to effort and propel the economy forward like a rocket.
Tags: a running list of warnings, affordability, economic rent, housing, housing affordability, infrastructure, land supply, land tax, Progress, site rental, tax reform
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Portland (pop. 10,000) remains seriously underdeveloped. While the rest of the state has grown by leaps and bounds, Portland sleeps. Its laggard status should be a matter of considerable concern to all Victorians.
Tags: economic rent, infrastructure, land tax, site rental, tax reform
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Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Melbourne City Council is selling lanes to developers, according to The Age today. It makes a pretty penny, too, having pocketed $1.2 million from the sale of part of three lanes in the last 12 months alone. The article sparked an intense debate on the newspaper’s blog. Sales are energetically supported by citizens disgusted by [...]
Tags: affordability, council rating, detailed articles, economic rent, infrastructure, land bank, land rent, land supply, Newspapers - The Age, site rental, speculation, wealth gap
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
The Australian Tax Office has released figures on the extent of negative gearing in Australia ahead of the Henry Tax Review. This is no accident. They are preparing the ground for Ken Henry’s changes. The picture drawn is not pretty: it shows the nation’s ‘aspirational’ landlords, heavily weighted with borrowings, perched on a twig, [...]
Tags: a running list of warnings, aspirational, beggar thy neighbor, boom-bust, depression, economic rent, FHOG, financial literacy, Henry review, housing, Ken henry treasury tax review, land supply, negative equity, recession, site rental, speculation, unearned increments of wealth
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
photo credit: chaosinjune letter to the Monash Journal Site Value ANGE Siouclis is correct to suggest “why not trim excess expenditure and unwarranted perks and costs” at Monash Council (Your View, November 24). But to say that we all should pay the same amount of rates is wrong. That’s what Margaret Thatcher tried to push [...]
Tags: site rental
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
photo credit: Dunechaser It seems that another whitewash of economic theory is being subtly thrust upon us with the ongoing Henry Tax review. According to Henry, he has re-written economic theory. The 3 sources of taxation are now labour, capital and consumption. The Corruption of Economics continues with Land, the most essential of all factors [...]
Tags: GST, Henry review, land tax, site rental
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