by Dr Cameron Murray Summary 1. Successful reforms of oil and gas resource taxation that reclaim the public’s rightful share of resource rents will be vigorously contested with extensive lobbying and campaigning. The oil and gas industry is also likely to challenge...
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Gold Coast light rail study helps put a figure on value capture’s funding potential
by Dr Cameron Murray cross-posted from The Conversation Value capture actually can work when it comes to funding new transport infrastructure. My research on the Gold Coast light rail provides the figures to demonstrate the size of the gains to nearby land values,...
The First Interval – Evaluating ACT’s Land Value Tax Transition – Full Report
The First Interval – Evaluating ACT’s Land Value Tax Transition By Dr Cameron Murray Prosper Australia commissioned Dr Murray to examine the early benefits of ACT’s 20 year process replacing conveyancing stamp duty with land tax. His report is here:...
The First Interval – Evaluating ACT’s Land Value Tax Transition
; The First Interval – Evaluating ACT’s Land Value Tax Transition By Dr Cameron Murray Prosper Australia commissioned Dr Murray to examine the early benefits of ACT’s 20 year process replacing conveyancing stamp duty with land tax. He will present his calculations and...
Modelling housing failure
Cameron Murray from Fresh Economic Thinking provides insight on why today's housing modeling is not up to the task of providing accurate insights into urban development. The workhorse model of urban economics is the Alonso-Muth-Mills (AMM) model of the mono-centric...
Rezoning in Queensland rife for further investigation
If only 4 Corners was edgy enough to cover this important work, because as Fairfax's Michael Pascoe said, this research should be triggering a royal commission. Cross-posted from Cameron Murray's Fresh Economic Thinking blog How to get your land rezoned: A QLD story...
Humans vs Houses: Australia’s perverse tax system
by Cameron Murray Reposted from macrobusiness I often joke that my investment property earns more than I do. Thinking more about this lead me to the realisation that my investment property has a privileged position in the tax system when compared to a measly old human...
Land rezoning open to routine corruption
As published in The Age and online, highlighting today's seminar. by Clay Lucas The rezoning of land by state governments across Australia is so open to routine corruption and manipulation by a "mates network" among both major political parties that a cooling off...
Re-zoning insider windfalls
Read about this landmark methodology by Cameron Murray and Paul Fritjers, modelling game theory from thousands of cosy relationships to determine the likelihood of beneficial re-zoning outcomes. Cameron was interviewed on the Renegade Economists last week. Stay tuned...
The great land banking scam exposed
by Cameron Murray Property development can be a dirty business, particularly when it comes to land-banking, which is the speciality of Australia’s largest developers. Land-banking involves the speculative buying of large parcels of land that are currently unsuitable...