One of our best economic commentators makes fundamental errors about negative gearing, the ABCC and housing prices.
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Shorten in policy disarray on housing affordability and negative gearing
This morning Bill Shorten admitted on ABC Radio’s AM program that Labor’s negative gearing policy would not achieve its headline goal as a “Positive Plan to Help Housing Affordability”.
ALP would make Australia the second most expensive OECD country for Capital Gains Tax
Such "low tax" countries as Germany, France, Italy and even New Zealand tax capital gains at 0%, but Labor would tax at a level second only to Denmark.
Negative gearing policy channels mining tax debacle
The Labor Party’s negative gearing policy has the potential to become a rerun of its mining tax – creating major upheaval and uncertainty but raising very little additional revenue.
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Historically Australian interest rates have been higher than US rates. Makes sense - which currency... would you rather hold. So why would you expect Aussie interest rates to dive when US interest rates are holding up. #InterestRates #RBA #housing https://data.bis.org/topics/CBPOL/tables-and-dashboards
