New research suggests upcoming housing investor taxes will have a less dramatic impact than many fear. But some, especially retired investors, will be worse off.
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Negative gearing hasn’t been abolished, only restricted. But the new rules could distort the housing market in other ways.
Jim Chalmers has watered down from Labor’s changes to superannuation, and fully dumped the plan to tax unrealised capital gains
The new proposal to phase out tax breaks on more than one investment property would affect around 1% of Australians.
Capital gains taxes are often lauded as the fair way to ensure everyone pays their fair share. But when you map out different tax scenarios, taxing capital gains many not be as fair as it seems.
The federal government says it’s committed to addressing the challenges faced by younger generations, including housing affordability and the high cost of living. Does the budget deliver on its promises?
Negative gearing is popular because it lowers home owners’ tax bills. But its critics say it has reduced affordable housing stock keeping the less well off out of the market.
Even changing the tax system won’t end steadily-climbing property prices. They are the result of urbanisation, and while COVID has eased some of the pressures, it has added some more.
Alan Kohler’s Quarterly Essay lays out how the policies of successive governments have not only failed to address housing problems, but actively created them.
The wealthiest Australians are taxed differently from the rest of us, because they earn much of their money in a different way.
Middle- and low-income households are being priced out of owning their homes as average house prices reach levels last seen in the 2000s.
A new report found that America’s top billionaires paid very little income tax despite tremendous gains in their wealth.
In some quarters, the median Sydney home earns more from capital gains than the median worker earns from wages. Now’s a good time to wind back the measures that push prices up.
The Trump administration is considering a change to capital gains that could be a windfall for the rich. A scholar explains what they are and how they’re taxed.
The Trump administration is considering a change to how capital gains taxes are calculated that would save investors roughly $100 billion over a decade.
Housing affordability has declined significantly over the past few decades. Slowly reducing negative gearing and capital gains, and switching to property taxes, could reverse this trend.
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Research fellow, Housing and Community Research Unit (HACRU), University of Tasmania
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Professor Emeritus, Economics & Finance, University of Houston-Clear Lake
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Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Research Fellow & Deputy Director, HACRU, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Political Science; Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Taxation, Discipline of Accounting, Governance & Regulation, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra
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Professor of Tax Law, The University of Western Australia
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Research Fellow - Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Head of Finance and Macroeconomics, Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL
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Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Real Estate, Heriot-Watt University
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Associate professor in urbanism, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Accounting and Financial Planning, Western Sydney University