ABC: If we taxed land properly, we’d have billions of extra dollars to fund big tax cuts elsewhere. So why don’t we do it?

By Gareth Hutchens

March 24 2024

It’s a basic principle of tax design.

If you want less of something you tax it more, and if you want more of something you tax it less.

So why do we tax workers and businesses so heavily in this country, and why do we tax speculation and pollution and monopoly rents so lightly? 

It’s a persistent mystery that Prosper Australia has highlighted for decades.

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