Housing



When interest rates began to rise, many anticipated a sharp decline in house prices, but this has not been the case. Our research paper, “The… Read More ›

Why Low Yield Does Not Deter Property Investors: Insights from Greater Sydney

Negative gearing allows households that incur losses on rental income to deduct these losses from other sources of income. The Greens are currently advocating for… Read More ›

Negative Gearing: Not So Negative After All?

If just one state of Australia, New South Wales, scrapped its stamp duty on real-estate transactions, about 100,000 more Australians would move homes each year,… Read More ›

Stamp Duty Is Holding Us Back From Moving Homes – We’ve Worked Out How Much

Compulsory acquisition and regulating what can be done on land are distinct but conceptually similar urban planning tools. However, while both may be regarded as… Read More ›

Compensating and Taxing Land Regulations

While economists are renown for never agreeing, almost all do agree that stamp duty on property transfers is bad tax. Similarly, it is widely accepted… Read More ›

Stamp Duty Reform: How to Thread the Needle Between Economic and Political Objectives

More than 170 countries now have a goods and services tax (GST) or value-added tax (VAT), and the tax accounts for approximately one fifth of… Read More ›

Shifting from Prepaid to Periodic GST on the Consumption of Residential Premises

All Australian mainland states and territories, except the Northern Territory, levy additional taxes on the ownership of Australian real property by non-citizens who are not… Read More ›

‘Fair(ness) Go(ne)’? Foreigner Surcharge Taxes and Tax Non-Discrimination

In February 2013, I published an article titled ‘Increases in residential land values in Australian capital cities’, in Urban Link, an electronic journal produced by… Read More ›

A Note on Abolishing Stamp Duty on Land

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