Is Australia finally getting serious about tax reform, or just testing the waters?
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Compared to a deposit, stamp duty is often a small cost – but axing it would cost the government billions a year.
Rayner’s case highlights the complexities of a system every UK housebuyer is expected to get to grips with.
Stamp duty has been around for centuries but it is bad in principle and poor in execution.
If state and federal governments replaced inefficient taxes with better designed ones, households would be at least $900 better off.
You can almost certainly expect to gain overall from this budget, even if not personally from every change.
Older people often stay in large houses that aren’t suitable for them anymore. Can we make it easier for them to contemplate moving to a smaller place?
New estimates suggest that if just one state, New South Wales, scrapped its stamp duty, an extra 100,000 Australians would move homes each year.
Can the chancellor move the dial on the Tories’ grim polling?
ISAs, benefits and mortgage support are all rumoured to be mentioned in chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s next autumn statement.
What will work for commercial and industrial properties ought to work for homes.
Neither NSW Labor nor the NSW Coalition is actually proposing to axe stamp duty. Neither are any of the other states or territories, apart from the ACT.
An economist explains what young people need to know about the mini budget, and how to protect yourself financially.
Economists have long advocated replacing stamp duty with land tax. We find that the implications for housing prices depends on whether you own a house or an apartment.
Charging for rezoning is a move other states should follow, as are land taxes. Stamp duty hikes, not so much.
A stamp duty holiday announced to avoid a housing market crash is not all it was cracked up to be.
Homebuyers would benefit from a stamp duty for land tax swap, and so would some homeowners.
Its “opt-in” proposal means some homeowners will never switch over and will never pay land tax.
Tasmania gets more of its revenue from “bad taxes” than any state or territory other than Victoria, and less from “good taxes” than anywhere other than Queensland.
Rezoning enormously increases the value of properties. Yet the developers who benefit don’t want to pay, in the name of “certainty”.
Top contributors
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Deputy Director and Associate Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Research Fellow - Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Economics | Freelance Consultant, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Centre of Policy Studies and the Impact Project, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Sydney
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Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) and John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, City St George's, University of London
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Casual Lecturer in Planning, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, POLIS@ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Research Fellow & Deputy Director, HACRU, University of Tasmania