Stamp duty
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Government
Qld to give first home buyers a ‘fairer go’ with changes to stamp duty
Some 10,000 buyers are expected to save up to $17,000 under Labor’s latest pre-election budget sweetener.
- by Matt Dennien
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WA’s premier on the housing crisis, stamp duty … and cash-for-access dinners
Ahead of his anniversary as premier, WAtoday grilled Roger Cook on some of the more uncomfortable issues facing the government he’ll take to the next election.
- by Hamish Hastie
Why the Australian housing market is worse than our overseas peers
While building more homes is a part of the solution, experts say there are other measures that could bring property prices down.
- by Jemimah Clegg
Queenslanders slugged $3.5 billion more than forecast in stamp duty
And a new report says Brisbane home buyers would spend almost a decade paying down the taxes on a 30-year, $730,000 mortgage on a house and land package.
- by William Ton
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Victorian Parliament
Victoria open to stamp duty overhaul to ease burden on first home buyers
Treasurer Tim Pallas has given his strongest hint yet that the state government would consider ditching stamp duty and replacing it with a land tax.
- by Josh Gordon and Kieran Rooney
Opinion
Housing crisis
How to fix the housing crisis? Let’s start with this defacto tax on divorce
In the midst of a crisis, we should pull all the available levers. That means abolishing stamp duty should be on the agenda.
- by Matt Wade
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Tax reform
‘Act on tax and housing’: 59 per cent of voters back case for change
A clear majority of voters back the case for tax reform that can help young Australians buy their first homes.
- by David Crowe
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For subscribers
The fastest way to add $5 billion to Victoria’s economy? Axe stamp duty
For every $1 of stamp duty collected, 55 cents goes down the drain in lost economic activity. Yet the state government is refusing to switch.
- by Josh Gordon
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For subscribers
Foreign buyers let off on extra stamp duties, but government won’t name them
Victoria’s budget bottom line took an estimated $73 million hit after additional stamp duty obligations were waived on dozens of foreign-owned entities last year.
- by Broede Carmody
‘We would not have squandered this opportunity’: NSW opposition leader gives budget response
Opposition Leader Mark Speakman says the government did not do enough to address the housing crisis in its first budget.
- by Alexandra Smith
The No.1 tax economists hate? Victoria is keeping it
A group of Victorian MPs considered whether to get rid of stamp duty, but decided against it. Economists say it’s disappointing for home buyers.
- by Broede Carmody