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THE LATEST FROM OUR BLOG
The 2022 EJ Craigie Award Winner
131st Annual Henry George Commemorative Dinner and Address
Queensland Land Tax reversal a win for property industry spin
NSW and VIC value capture reforms: A comparison
Workers and businesses need to get on the same page: it’s time to tax super-profits
ACCC, Auditor Generals MIA re Land Banking
Forget Red or Green Tape, Developers Squeeze Housing Supply with Gold Tape
Presentation: What Happens Behind the Land Supply Curtain?
Our latest Research
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.
Stamp Duty to Land Tax: Designing the Transition
For politicians searching for a circuit-breaker on state tax reform, our model offers generous but logical concessions for existing owners, choice for future buyers, and an attractive introductory period to secure support early on. It is complex at the policy design back-end but simple at the taxpayer front-end.
The Rezoning Honeypot: Evidence from Fishermans Bend
The circumstances surrounding the rezoning of Fishermans Bend, a 240-hectare brownfields precinct adjacent to the Melbourne CBD, provides for a simple quasi-experiment to quantify rezoning uplifts.
The Second Interval: evaluating the ACT’s 20 Year Land Value Taxation
Propser is undertaking a series of five reports, to be published every four years, examining the progress and impacts of the ACT Government’s ambitious land tax reform agenda.
The ‘not enough’ budget clears the way for a bigger tax conversation
November 3, 2022