Monbiot chronicles the shrieking retorts to reforms challenging their unearned incomes. Tax reform can no longer be dismissed as a dirty word left to the well connected. Here in Australia such shrieking to the mining tax, pokie or taxi license reforms was…
By Catherine Cashmore Follow Catherine on Twitter Cross-posted from Macrobusiness There’s been a lot of debate around property taxation in Australia; significantly negative gearing, which allows an investor to use the short fall between interest repayments and other relevant expenditure,…
Governments in China, Hong Kong and Singapore are acting to curb property speculation. Zero Hedge comments: The reason for this “hot money” phenomenon is the easy money policy adopted by all the world’s central banks (except for the PBOC of…
Tues Oct 30th, 6.30pm 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne Presenter: Dr Gavin Putland RSVP to this free event Dr Gavin Putland discusses the role of Australia’s largest market – the land market – in influencing economic activity. In 2001, Bryan Kavanagh…
Our colleagues in the UK are making good headway into the political process. Here in Australia, despite leading research on the topic, politicians shake in their boots when they consider the property lobby.
photo credit: Apogee Photography In today’s Guardian via Mark Braund, author of The Possibilities of Progress (available in our bookshop), summarises the rising impetus of LVT in UK politics. As a long-time supporter of land value taxation (LVT), it’s encouraging…
By Karl Fitzgerald Crikey If we are all borne onto this planet as equals, why are some subsidised to own the planet at the expense of others? Don’t we all deserve a roof over our heads? The right to participate…
Higher interest rates are the surface issue “The Great Australian Dream is being threatened by speculative forces rather than interest rates” said Prosper Australia spokesman Karl Fitzgerald today. The Howard Government’s expansion of negative gearing in 1996 put the blow-torch…
The Australian Mr Michael Janda’s advocacy of land value taxation as a means of lowering the tax burden on both workers and entrepreneurs is well advised. As Adam Smith recognized, there are only three factors of production – land, labour…
A Submission to the Review of Electricity Distribution and Service Delivery for the 21st Century estd. by the Queensland Government, March 1, 2004 Summary The benefits of sinking power lines underground — including fewer power outages, higher power quality,…