photo credit: Domiriel Influential SMH Journalist Jessica Irvine today writes about the urgent need for Land Tax to be prioritised in Land is the Best Hope for Fixing the Tax System. Make sure you see the film Real Estate 4 Ransom to investigate these issues further....
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Un-Taxed Privilege
photo credit: rubenerd29 September 2011 MELBOURNE:- Vested interests are determined to stifle reform of the government revenue base at the Tax Forum next week, says Prosper Australia. “The government has lined up industry representatives and lobby peaks – all to plead...
Why didn’t economists see Australia’s property bubble?
photo credit: h.koppdelaney By Philip Soos This article first appeared at www.theconversation.edu.au and is republished under Creative Commons. One aspect of housing and stock market bubbles continually repeats: the vast majority of economists either miss or deny...
Land Tax REDUCES Rents
Dr Gavin Putland of the Land Values Research Group drives a stake through a vampire heart in the Letters page of today's Australian Financial Review Joanne Seve (Letters, August 5) regurgitates the property lobby's favourite untruth, namely that land tax is passed on...
How Much Land Does A Man Need?
At this market climax, let me remind all of the risks of compulsive, over-optimistic ambition. In Leo Tolstoys’ tale, ‘How Much Land Does A Man Need?’ written in 1886, a wealthy peasant named Pahlom is told of the rich earth in the land of the Bashkirs beyond the...
Miners Gouge Australia Twice
photo credit: yewenyi “The mismanagement of both the federal tax powers and Australia’s natural assets by the Gillard government is sickening,” Prosper Australia Campaign Manager David Collyer said today. “They are allowing the miners to gouge our country twice.”...
Premier Baillieu – Victoria’s Tax Architect
photo credit: mugleyThe Baillieu government has just received a major report into Victoria’s economic efficiency that offers a clear path to redesign state taxes, advance living standards and make Victoria an absolute magnet for employment and investment. “Ted...
How Financial Oligarchy Supplants Sovereignty
photo credit: George Laoutaris Will Greece Let EU Central Bankers Run Riot Over Sovereignty? Michael Hudson When Greece exchanged its drachma for the euro in 2000, most voters were all for joining the Eurozone. Their hope was that it would ensure stability, and that...
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
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.