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Monopoly rents on notice
The last few weeks have seen more good news in support of our objectives for economic justice. Monopoly rents have been called into question in a variety of different guises. Yesterday Peter Orszag (Obama's budget czar) was in Australia for a conference and was quoted...
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Putting Right Price on Infrastructure
The editorial for the Australian Financial Review summed up Malcolm Turnbull's push for value capture so well we had to share it with you: Malcolm Turnbull doesn’t just ride on trains, he understands that they are the arteries of a modern city. This insight is clearly...
Enews: VC Advocacy, New office
Join our regular enews for all the good news in Evolving Economics. See past editions. Having trouble reading this newsletter? View it online. The enews of Prosper & Earthsharing Australia 2015 Value Capture Agenda Prime Minister Turnbull has promoted his...
We spend, you win, you pay
Karl Fitzgerald was interviewed yesterday on ABC morning radio with Jon Faine. The hot topic was PM Turnbull's innovative push to utilise value capture for infrastructure financing. We have long advocated this reform. Karl Fitzgerald on ABC radio re Land Value Capture...
Do we at last have an Infrastructure Prime Minister?
Over the weekend, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull delighting Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk by announcing a federal contribution of $95 million for the Gold Coast light rail project. Journalists have leapt on this new policy stance, different from the...
The good ol’ boys clean up
Fairfax’s Michael Pascoe writes today about Murray & Frijters’ study Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland which found politically connected developers gained $410 million through favourable rezoning decisions in Brisbane...
Freebairn & Stewart: Let’s talk tax.
Professors John Freebairn and Miranda Stewart have penned an opinion piece today in The Age with a welcome call for state tax reform that could save taxpayers tens of billions every year. Most taxes carry deadweight losses - value destroyed as behaviour is distorted...
Land rents with Thai rice
by Phillip Anderson, Editor of Cycles, Trends and Forecasts Events around the world don’t happen in a vacuum. They have causes. They’re usually linked back to rent and the corruption and self serving nature of government. Indeed, the biggest problem around the world...
Dan Tehan wants to end Stamp Duty – for a big new GST???
MHR Dan Tehan (Liberal, Wannon) had an op-ed in today's Australian Financial Review, States dragging their heels on tax reform, criticising them for clinging to very bad taxes, notably Stamp Duty on property conveyancing. “Home buyers across the country are still...
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