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The origin of financial collapse: Land speculation and untaxed economic rent

March 29, 2016 Matt EllisTax Reform
Land Speculation Billboard - Henry George on Economic Rent

By Bryan Kavanagh, cross-posted from Online Opinion, March 29th 2016

The Australian Federal Treasury publication “Architecture of Australia’s tax and transfer system” (August 2008) made a valid observation:

While there are at least a hundred taxes, they all ultimately

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Tax reform Twilight Zone: Negative Gearing shock-horror!

February 17, 2016 Matt EllisTax Reform
Tax reform Twilight Zone

Well either I’ve woken up in a parallel universe (no doubt related to the recent proof of the existence of gravitational waves), or the most blindingly obvious imbalances in our tax system have suddenly become imperatives for tax reform for … Read more

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The Verve of Vested Interests

February 8, 2016 Matt EllisAustralian Economics, Australian Housing
Worried-About-Foreign-Investment_REALESTATE4RANSOM

Cross-posted from Prosper.org.au, by Karl Fitzgerald, February 6th 2016

The Property Council of Australia’s shameless threat to both sides of politics to look the other way on negative gearing reform is a slap in the face to the democratic … Read more

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Foreign ownership juiced housing bubble, but it won’t save it

January 26, 2016January 27, 2016 Matt EllisAustralian Housing

You’d have to be have been living under a rock to have missed the widespread consternation about the role of foreign investment (read foreign ownership – a crucial distinction) in Australian domestic real estate over the last few years. In … Read more

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Real Estate myths are being destroyed: “There’s never been a worse time to buy…”

December 11, 2015December 17, 2015 Matt EllisAustralian Housing

Like all marketing exercises, real estate is primarily sold by exploiting our fears. In order to exploit our fears, marketers must first stoke fears. And the stoking of fear requires one or more invented problems, which we must be taught … Read more

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