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If We’re Going to Pay Tax
"If we’re going to have to pay tax we should pay tax in the most efficient, the most reasonable and most equitable way." So said Fairfax journalist Michael Pascoe on this week's Renegade Economists radio show. Transcript Karl Fitzgerald: This week listeners we’re with...
It is still land, even underwater.
The High Court of Australia has affirmed the right of a west Tasmanian council to levy rates on the seabed. It is still land, even underwater. Council saw the land under eight marine farming leases as ‘rateable land’, Tasmania’s Valuer General declined to value them...
Metricon wins land-tax case – everyone loses
The national pastime of withholding land from use and enforcing scarcity has been boosted in the NSW Supreme Court when developer Metricon won a land tax case against the Chief Commissioner of State Revenue. Metricon successfully argued grazing a few cows to keep the...
Australia’s housing bubble and the road to private serfdom
by Philip Soos cross-posted from Independent Australia Banks, abetted by government, want you to keep getting crippling mortages to pay for vastly overpriced land, but the party can't last forever. Over the last 20 years, housing has developed a reputation as a...
HG Wells – feudal critique
By Karl Williams As part of the Geoists in History series: Key quotes: “The World State in this ideal presents itself as the sole landowner of the earth, with the great local governments I have adumbrated, the local municipalities, holding, as it were, feudally under...
Homeless Protest Tax Incentives for Hoarding
Today we featured in the Guardian article by Van Badham: Meet the homeless protesters who are taking on tax breaks for the rich. It has people talking - 236 shares and 208 comments in just a few hours. Badham writes: Word of this betrayal travelled through Melbourne’s...
Odd Bedfellows
Something is up when the NSW Business Chamber allies with the NSW Council of Social Services and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. Stern champions of enterprise have jumped into bed with hand-wringing defenders of the down-trodden and cloth-cap unionists–...
PM sets up the states for a 1% federal land tax
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has positioned the Commonwealth Government to introduce a 1% federal land tax and reform our bust political system that denies voters the right to hold government accountable. Overnight, the states rejected the Prime Minister's call to...
PM to lift the stone from your chest
Malcolm Turnbull today offered a gift of $1000 to every man, woman and child in Australia. The money will come every year forever – if the states and territories end Stamp Duty and fund this by removing the exemptions and wheezes from State Land Tax. No, we don't get...
Richard Cobden – Liberate the Land
We celebrate our 125th Annual Henry George Commemorative Dinner this September and with that in mind, we continue unveiling our rich historical tradition of land reformers in the Geoists in History series with Richard Cobden. “You who shall liberate the land will do...
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