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Look at residential property as an example. An owner occupier pays no capital gains tax in their main residence. An individual investor, partners and some trusts get a 50% capital gainst tax discount. There are also CGT small business concessions. Others, such as companies, pay full capital...

NRAS rent assistance Government housing NGO housing services I agree that access to housing is a basic human right. There is a lot more we could do. e.g. it water speculated by a water provider in 2012 that 6% of homes in melbourne were vacant. At a guess, this could be as many as 90,730...

Land tax in WA seems relatively cheap. Stamp duty on the other hand... :mad:

I also think that for most invidual investors, the CGT discount is going to be worth a lot more in dollar terms than NG. If I bought a $500,000 house on a 105% loan @ 5% = $26,250 interest per annum. Rates, water rates, insurance etc would be around $5k per year, bumping the cost to around...

Wouldn't the capital gains tax discount distort the market to a much greater extent than negative gearing? NG supposedly costs the tax system $2-$4 billion per annum. NGers lost $13 billion last year. Whereas the capital gains tax discount (100% for main residence and 50% for investors) cost...