photo credit: Hyaground Peter Martin, the journalist with the biggest sieve (catching all those Henry Tax report leaks), wrote recently on the LP's highly secretive Ergas report: The report proposes an annual land tax that would extend to the family home and would be...
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Waste Land
Watch this short video from our colleagues in Philadelphia to see how the tax system places community activity in the waste bin via the waste-land mentality.
Henry Review Rumours re Land Tax
photo credit: mugley The plot thickens with Glenn Milne reporting THE Federal Government's biggest tax inquiry in more than two decades is set to propose a national land tax, a new resource tax and a congestion tax for clogged cities. The Henry Review, by Treasury...
Government Needs To Be More Savvy on Land Tax
photo credit: The Rocketeer The State Government has come under more pressure from the property lobby in Government Criticised for not cutting Land Tax "The Treasurer should have provided stamp duty and land tax relief as measures to stimulate demand for property...
Land Tax Can’t be passed on to tenants
photo credit: Roger Lynn The Age today ramps up the property lobby's annual war against contributing to society in Land tax hike to hit tenants Knight Frank managing director Paul Burns said landlords had been complaining about their 2009 land tax bills, and agreed...
Ineffective Demand
# 2 12 December 2008 Ineffective demand: a picture of a tax-induced economic depression In the 2nd of this most important series of commentaries warning of the looming depression, Bryan Kavanagh interprets one of his most important graphs. Mr Kavanagh lists the...
Lovers of Land Tax
photo credit: Shavar Former journalist Lisa Pryor sums up the frustrations of the many at the quarterly roll out of baby boomers complaining about Land Taxes on investment properties. She writes in her It's Grim Down the South Coast for the Well Off : Land tax...
Henry Review another mash up of compromises
photo credit: Dunechaser It seems that another whitewash of economic theory is being subtly thrust upon us with the ongoing Henry Tax review. According to Henry, he has re-written economic theory. The 3 sources of taxation are now labour, capital and consumption. The...
Land Tax Lobbyists active as State Budget approaches
Todays Age article on Land Tax Cuts Wont Bring Savings alerts all those interested in defending the communities right to a share of the free lunch land prices reflect. The next few weeks will see the property lobby step up their claims to pay less and less of the one...
Brumby Delivers Free Lunch
The front cover of today's Herald Sun has a huge photo of Horse Stud owner Steve Spiteri (looking hard done by!) with a caption: 'Thanks Premier: Steve Hits Paydirt'. Yesterday's announcement to rezone all land residential within Melbourne's 2030 boundary has made...