Treasurer Hockey supports ending stamp duty for land tax
PRESS RELEASE 19 May 2015 MELBOURNE:- Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has endorsed moves by South Australia to abolish Stamp Duty and replace it with a nil exemption, broad-based land tax. He said the cost of an annual land tax would likely be less in the long term than...Australia’s land price conundrum
by Bryan Kavanagh reposted from On-Line Opinion Whilst in Newgate Prison (1827-1830) for the abduction of heiress Ellen Turner, Edward Gibbon Wakefield had a great idea. If you kept land prices high in the new British colonies, people could be forced to work like...WA budget wins Golden Banana Award
West Australia’s Barnett government has just handed down its budget. It is the ugliest baby I have ever seen. The AFR reports: All key financial measures have been blown apart in the state budget, with net debt (above $30 billion) cash deficits (above $5...The Census saved!
The Abbott government has agreed to spend $250 million on the 2016 census and to replace the Australian Bureau of Statistics computer systems, parts of which are 30 years old. The census is a critically important national statistical tool. It measures population and...Republish this article
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