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Workers and businesses need to get on the same page: it’s time to tax super-profits
The wage share of our collective income is at historical lows while the profits share is on the rise. Why is this? There has been some dispute over what impact wages have on inflation (practically none), and if profits have driven inflation. Yet the picture is clearly...
ACCC, Auditor Generals MIA re Land Banking
Cross-posted from The Age's Cara Waters. More regulation of property developers is needed to prevent them deliberately releasing land slowly to drive up prices for aspiring home owners and maximise their own profits, according to independent think tank Prosper...
Forget Red or Green Tape, Developers Squeeze Housing Supply with Gold Tape
Op-ed Cross-posted from The Age, Karl Fitzgerald The development industry has told us for many years that if the government would just pick up the pace of planning approvals, the supply they could bring to market would bring house prices down. In submissions to...
Presentation: What Happens Behind the Land Supply Curtain?
Our Staged Releases report release presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d6FUvMhtKw See the full slideshow in your own time:
Staged Releases in The Age
Cross-posted from The Age, by Cara Waters The state government’s push to reduce the cost of housing by releasing swaths of land on Melbourne’s fringe is being undermined by big developers, which new economic analysis suggests are banking the land then releasing it...
Media Release: Staged Releases
New report reveals nine Master Plan Communities costing $5.9 billion in higher housing costs A new report entitled Staged Releases: Peering behind the land supply curtain from Prosper Australia has revealed the profits developers enjoy through the strategic releasing...
Launch: Staged Releases Report
Date: Tuesday July 26th, 6pm Where: Zoom or Level 1, 64 Harcourt St, North Melbourne How do developers feed supply to the market and under what conditions? Karl Fitzgerald will present the findings of a landmark new report - Staged Releases: Peering Behind the Land...
Henry George and the Progressive Movement
A great new video on Henry George's influence, his timeless message.
S.A Land Tax Challenges
Transcript - Mornings with Leon Byner, 5AA FM, Adelaide We’ll there are renewed calls for a broad based land tax to replace stamp duty, now the only thing I ask is, be careful what you wish for. There’s an advocacy group called Prosper Australia and they are are...
Public Education Key to NSW SD-Land Tax reform
Cross posted from Robert Harley at the AFR Karl Fitzgerald, the advocacy director at Prosper Australia, is a strong believer in the benefits of replacing property stamp duty with a broad-based land tax. But he has a warning for first-home buyers attracted to the...
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