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The Move
We are now settled into our new office space - LSX, 285 Lennox St, Richmond. It's just a few minutes walk from Richmond Station. Check the map below and more details on our contact page. As a co-working space, it's a world of innovation and collaboration. We have a...
Economic rents subsidise taxes on capital
Following the recent Treasury submission to the Federal government's Tax White Paper, which highlighted the positive marginal excess burden of Land Tax, is a more detailed analytical paper from Treasury using extensive modelling to report on the incidence and...
The rent ratchet mumble of the BBQ landlords
Rents always go up – don’t they? The 1.2 million negatively geared Australian tax payers whose property expenses exceed their rental income think so. Their cunning plan is to patiently wait while the rent ratchet turns their negative cash flows positive and net income...
A misguided attack on Land Value Taxes
by Noah Smith The idea of a Land Value Tax (LVT) is to tax the value of land independently of the value of improvements on that land (e.g. buildings, farms, or mines). Separating the value of a plot of land from the value of the structure built on top of it is a very...
Treasury unearths a beautiful tax
Treasury today released its submission to the federal Tax White Paper. It has found a tax that actually confers a benefit on Australian citizens. That is, using it actually leaves us better off. It isn't a new tax. It is land tax. Unbiased economists have always known...
Carnegie’s endowment
Prominent Australian investor Mark Carnegie has called for tax reform to end the policy and financial straight jacket we find ourselves in – pointing to land tax, a resources tax and a lift in the GST to 15 per cent. He labelled the Abbott Government’s upcoming White...
Land Takes All the Gains
Phil Anderson, author of The Secret Life of Real Estate & Banking, delivered a captivating presentation at Tuesday's packed Boom or Bust - Where are we in the Cycle? event. About half of the recording was included in this week's Renegade Economists podcast. Topics...
Land tax is simple and equitable
by Alex Sachez Australians love their property. Whether it be their own place of residence or whether it be their nest egg investment place, Australians love to buy and accumulate property. You don't have to look too far to see how the property obsession leaches into...
Prosper is Moving!
Having trouble reading this newsletter? View it online. The enews of Prosper & Earthsharing Australia MARCH 2015 Fre Sonneveld We are moving! Prosper is excited to inform our Evolving Economics readers that we are moving to the Lennox Street Exchange (LSX),...
Oh look! A baby swan!
Australia desperately needs an alibi – a Black Swan event – to nominate as the tipping point that ended the land bubble. Government is rigid with fear about the political consequences of being blamed for the turn. Whoever presides over the shift will earn a page in...
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