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LVRG Scrapbook: Rates on Site Values don't punish home builders
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009:. Rates on Site Values don't punish home builders. Gill Vivian's story (‘Wrong’ rates ping home builder, POST. 15/8, p.7) neatly explains why local rates should be levied on “ site values. Rdquo; — that is, values of land and airspace, including any attached building rights, but excluding actual buildings. The site value reflects the availability. Of a service, not the actual use. Rdquo; principle (and, to some extent, the “ capacity to pay. Cost that way, then the rest of the co...
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LVRG Scrapbook: Payroll tax is probably unconstitutional
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Friday, September 04, 2009:. Payroll tax is probably unconstitutional. One reason for Australia's chronic current account deficit is payroll tax, which inflates prices of Australian products, including exports and import replacements. This suggests that payroll tax is an excise. In which case it violates s.90. In the last relevant High Court case, namely Ha v. NSW. 1997), the minority. 1970), a State cannot escape s.90 by “throwing its net widely”. Letter by Gavin R. Putland. Rejected by the Age. RETWEET...
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LVRG Scrapbook: Builders and land speculators: strange bedfellows
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Friday, September 11, 2009:. Builders and land speculators: strange bedfellows. Andrew J. Gunter. Writes in the Age. Letters, Sep.11, 2009):. THE Housing Industry Association's Gil King says that “any policies that aim to speed up development applications and increase Victoria's housing stock are welcomed” ( The Age. So does the HIA support the replacement of stamp duty and payroll tax with land tax collecting the same revenue? Posted December 11, 2009.]. If thats useful,. RETWEET IT . . .
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LVRG Scrapbook: Making the tax system comply with s.82 of the Constitution
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Thursday, June 25, 2009:. Making the tax system comply with s.82 of the Constitution. A submission to the Treasury review on Australia's Future Tax System. By Gavin R. Putland. If we must have personal income tax,. Responsibility for withholding PAYE tax should be shifted from employers to financial institutions. If we must have a GST, it should be simplified so as to. Eliminate the need for tax invoices. These reforms would create jobs and boost production by greatly reducing compliance costs. Will we b...
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LVRG Scrapbook: Will we be doing this again in 2026?
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Thursday, November 20, 2008:. Will we be doing this again in 2026? Three years and five months after warning that “ the next adjustment of Australian interest rates would more properly be down. Rdquo; Bryan Kavanagh. Claims vindication in the Age. The article begins by noting the precedents and predicting that “We will no doubt learn shortly which building developer or bank will come to be seen as the harbinger of this particular financial collapse.” But unless we put an end to real-estat...Still on the ...
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There is no agenda for Australian youth - Rational Radical
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Economic justice, not Left and Right. There is no agenda for Australian youth. March 5, 2015. March 5, 2015. There has been much talk in the last few weeks and months about intergenerational fairness, in part because of the release of the. As detailed in my last post. And the recent Grattan Institute report entitled ‘ The Wealth of Generations. Our broken economic model, the tragedy of youth. I’ve been saying it for a long time: there is no budget emergency, but there. David Llewellyn Smith from MacroBus...
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September 2014 - Rational Radical
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Economic justice, not Left and Right. Labor Signals Return to a Forgotten Left-wing Principle: Land Tax. September 15, 2014. October 10, 2014. Labor Returning to its Economic Justice Roots? I’ve been struggling to find a news item about this – apart from one pay-walled article in the Australian Financial Review. And a Hallelujah from Prosper Australia. 8211; but Chris Bowen has just … Read more. Australia Starts to Spot the Bubble Chickens and they Appear to be Roosting. September 6, 2014.
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August 2015 - Rational Radical
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Economic justice, not Left and Right. Submission to Home Ownership Inquiry – Who will teach young people about risk? August 20, 2015. Following my recent article. On Australia’s epic housing bubble, (and the unavoidable conclusion that the only way to restore affordability is for the market to experience the inevitable crash that follows a bubble of such historic proportions), I submitted an … Read more. Australia, you’ve officially jumped the shark. August 3, 2015. August 3, 2015. Follow me on Twitter.
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It's official: housing speculation is bad for everyone in the long run - Rational Radical
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Economic justice, not Left and Right. It’s official: housing speculation is bad for everyone in the long run. December 12, 2014. December 12, 2014. Financial System Inquiry skewers housing speculation. The real analysts ( yes they are out there. Specifically, the Murray inquiry has drawn the following conclusions about housing and our financial system more broadly:. The enormous increase in mortgage debt accompanying the last two decades of housing speculation have placed our financial system at very lar...
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June 2015 - Rational Radical
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Economic justice, not Left and Right. The housing crash we had to have: A Gen Y perspective on the bubble. June 12, 2015. So bubble mania has finally hit the mainstream. The housing bubble question has landed squarely at the feet of the Prime Minister and his treasurer, and only 10 to 15 years late… What a relief it is then to hear. Hellip; Read more. Subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Australia’s new class war: A return to the Gilded Age. Follow me on Twitter.
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