Lynden Griggs – The Conversation

Federal and state agencies are using powerful automated data-matching programs to identify properties that are generating income and might be liable for tax. from www.shutterstock.com

January 23, 2017

Airbnb hosts beware – it’s not just Centrelink using robo‑debt systems

Brendan Gogarty, University of Tasmania and Lynden Griggs, University of Tasmania

State revenue offices are using data matching to identify people who earn income from Airbnb, then sending notices that they may be liable for land tax, even though this remains a legal grey area.

Consumers won’t be able to use PEXA anytime soon but it might streamline the buying and selling of property. Dan Peled/AAP

July 12, 2016

Explainer: how the paperless property market works

Lynden Griggs, University of Tasmania and Rouhshi Low, Queensland University of Technology

The paperless property market is now a reality and it could provide a faster more efficient sales. But its unlikely any consumers will be using the system themselves.

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