Incoming! Everyone Duck! Incoming!

by | Jun 11, 2013 | Commentary

Everybody duck! A property spruiker has taken exception to Philip Soos’ panoramic chart pack of Australian property values. Cripes! Pete Wargent is an investment advisor and auto-publicist who operates toward the breathless end of the investment spectrum. His new book...

PCA wants to cost shift – onto you

by | Jun 9, 2013 | Articles

Glen Byrnes, NSW Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia has a Fairfax op-ed out on the Fire Services Levy that has me seething. You will be too when you understand the filthy game he is playing. Victoria’s Fire Services Levy was a charge added to fire...

Carrots for Baby Boomers

by | May 16, 2013 | Press Releases

16 May 2013 MELBOURNE:- The federal budget initiative to omit conveyancing Stamp Duty for retirees down-sizing to a smaller home acknowledges just how destructive and behavior-distorting this vile tax is, says Prosper Australia. “This is a disgusting, economically...

Will no one fix our busted tax system?

by | May 15, 2013 | Commentary

15 May 2013 MELBOURNE:- Yesterday’s federal budget highlights again Australia’s unbalanced reliance on wage and salary taxation for government revenues, says Prosper Australia. “Taxation discourages. That is why we tax gambling, alcohol and tobacco. Unfortunately, it...

Everyone KNOWS

by | May 14, 2013 | Commentary

  Land prices are falling across Australia.  Yet the politico-housing complex strains at every sinew to hide this from first home buyers and jolly them into making a life-long commitment at the very worst time in eighty years. Problem is, the buyers know.  They...