Landlords ‘leveraging up’ by exploiting property tax rules are fuelling Australia’s housing affordability crisis, analysis finds
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“The combination of the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing rules has turbocharged debt-fuelled property speculation over recent decades”
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“Of the 900,000 investments in e61’s sample bought after 2007 and sold by mid-2025, 46,000 were economically unprofitable, but made money due to the capital gains tax discount”
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— This is a list of shopping malls in India, sortable by name, location, year opened and gross leasable area.
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— On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Ru…
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— Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country …
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“The tax rules reduced the probability of a property investment being economically unprofitable from 40% to 35% – a reduction of 5.1 percentage points, or 13%”
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— The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. Under the U.S. Constitution, the …
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“The typical tax on returns was 31% for investment properties with no debt. This dropped progressively to 18.5% for properties with the highest loan-to-value ratio of 90%”
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“A Greens-led parliamentary inquiry earlier this month found that the 50% discount 'skewed the ownership of housing away from owner-occupiers and towards investors'”
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“Treasury is modelling changes that could see the discount reduced to 33% for housing investors, while retaining the current rate for shares and other investments”
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“The e61 Institute has backed an inflation-linked discount on capital gains”
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“The design of the discount itself, rather than the rate, is driving the issue”
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