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Geoff FrancisFinancial Review |
A diversified portfolio of shares will likely fare much worse than housing due to a little-understood feature of the pre-1999 rules that the system is...
The other options on the table would lead to fewer new houses being built and make the intergenerational equity problem worse.
Framing debates about tax concessions in terms of intergenerational equity reflects a redistributionist, zero-sum mindset that ignores growth.
It is arguably unfair to middle-income earners who sell a property to be pushed into a higher tax bracket for that year.
Contrary to the consensus reached by hand-picked participants at Labor’s economic roundtable, income tax progressivity has not changed much since...
The change would do less damage than most other options, including updates to corporate and personal income tax.