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Prosper calls for Buyers Strike
Sign the GetUp petition Join the Facebook group Tax reform group Prosper Australia today called on first home buyers to delay buying real estate ahead of the flip into a falling market, which it described as ‘imminent’. RP Data reports there are over 900 Melbourne...
Land greed drives Arab fury
Arab cities lack even the basic facilities we take for granted in the West. The royals live alongside. Their giant palaces nestle in irrigated manicured gardens surrounded by high walls and efficient security.
She’ll be right, mate
Last Thursday, the Australian Financial Review leaked Treasury forecasts that the revenues lost in the Gillard Government’s back down on the mining tax will exceed $100 billion over the next ten years
UK Uncut on Tax Dodgers
Great to see young people firing up over why so many services have been cut. This anger will only build as the UK people realise how David Cameron has opened up the tax avoidance abilities of corporations in the UK. One day the people again will be discussing how the...
Delighted. And red-faced with anger
If anyone needed evidence that we live in a plutonomy, here it is. Australian citizens would be rioting in the street if they understood this conspiracy.
A Grounded Tax System for Australia
photo credit: Timmy Toucan You are cordially invited to an interactive seminar: A Grounded Tax System for Australia Thursday 24 February 2011, 7.00 pm Presenter David Collyer Why work for wages when tax takes the cream? Why risk a business when government sucks your...
Acres of Wealth
photo credit: HikingArtist.com Letter to the Editor Gavin Putland, LVRG, Melbourne 02/02/2011 THE value of land embraced by the latest extension of the urban growth boundary has jumped from $25,000 to $375,000 a hectare, raising the land tax bill for the average...
Liberate labor and enterprise
The reform challenge for our beloved country is to discard the taxes that weigh on effort and creativity, and to put them instead on economic rents, like land and mining.
Wage-earners subsidise land owners – again
The Gillard government today announced a levy on income taxes to pay for the Queensland floods: half a per cent on incomes over $50,000, one per cent on incomes over $100,000
Obfuscating Economic rent
A tax on economic rent is not, as Davidson says, a tax on “entrepreneurship and innovation”, but a tax on the surplus over the necessary returns to human inputs, including entrepreneurship and innovation.
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