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The Secret Life of Real Estate
If you think economics is boring, you haven’t met the real pirates of the Caribbean yet. Phil Anderson’s recently published book The Secret Life of Real Estate is both exciting and timely. It provides detailed insight on how the addiction…
Land Values and Location
Following another reference to our history via the boardgame Monopoly on ABC radio (originally named the Landlord’s Game), John Poulter of the Henry George Club called and was soon interviewed on the origins of the Single Tax. John sums up…
Corporate Pirates’ Colonial Tax Havens
photo credit: Cayusa Following on from the excellent ANP short film featured yesterday, George Monbiot recently wrote about the link between colonial interests and tax havens entitled Pin Striped Pirates: Over a quarter of the world’s tax havens are British…
Tax Havens Added to GFC
The plot thickens. What policy would deem tax havens irrelevant?
GFC: Bankers and sub-primers just scapegoats
The Bank of England now admits that the UK government failed to provide it with the tools needed to deal with boom/bust, according to an interview tonight on BBC’s Panorama programme. The missing tool was tax policy. “That’s why we…
Lovers of Land Tax
photo credit: Shavar Former journalist Lisa Pryor sums up the frustrations of the many at the quarterly roll out of baby boomers complaining about Land Taxes on investment properties. She writes in her It’s Grim Down the South Coast for…
Why Mugabe killed Zimbabwe
Monash Rates issue a distortion
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…
Henry Review another mash up of compromises
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…