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2019/01/30

Why might rents rise under Labor?

2016/06/22

SQM Research contradicts itself on Labor's negative-gearing policy

2016/06/09

REIA contradicts itself on negative-gearing policy (updated)

2016/05/21

Whether limiting negative gearing to new homes would raise rents

2016/03/29

Could a 137-year-old equation explain the financial collapse?

2016/03/21

Sinodinos takes new page from negative-gearing playbook

2015/12/31

State capital-gains tax would pay for infrastructure and enrich property owners without fleecing the rest of us

2015/08/24

A ‘capital gain’ is a private tax

2015/07/17

How the Hawke-Keating government missed the boat on negative gearing

2015/07/11

A ‘general formula’ for the price-rent ratio in a rational property market

2015/07/08

Squaring the circle: The contradictory arguments against limiting negative gearing to new homes

2015/05/13

Housing investors party on like it's 2003

2015/05/05

Reply to Henry Ergas on negative gearing

2015/01/18

Do God-botherers lift residential property values?

2014/11/07

Kavanagh-Putland index rises on Sydney investment binge

2014/08/12

Housing: Are we maxed out again?

2014/07/16

How entrenched is negative gearing?

2014/07/10

Hours worked, balance of trade will hurt GDP

2014/05/14

Budget reply: A tax policy for full employment and affordable housing

2014/05/01

For the record: Putland on negative gearing, CGT and the FHOG, 2003

2014/01/23

Prices, labour taxes and consumption taxes

2014/01/20

Howard blew his capital

2013/12/24

Kavanagh-Putland index bounces on low interest rates

2013/12/21

Investor-FHB imbalance approaches tipping point?

2013/09/19

Ramsey and Pigou: crypto-Georgists

2013/09/03

A classical view of ‘fiscal devaluation’

2013/08/07

Housing finance continues its unbalanced rally

2013/08/06

Hours worked, balance of trade help GDP in Q2

2013/07/29

If we must have personal income tax...

2013/07/10

Economic rent of land as a fraction of Australian GDP

2013/06/01

A tax-replacement rent?

2013/05/13

Housing finance responds to RBA's defibrillator

2013/05/10

The Minimum General Rate as a weapon of class warfare

2013/05/02

Making negative gearing work as advertised

2013/05/01

Tax debt, not interest

2013/04/30

Stamp-duty revenue slumped again in 2011-12

2013/04/11

Hours worked, balance of trade help GDP in Q1

2013/03/28

Beneficiary-pays for infrastructure

2013/03/06

Lies, damned lies and marginal tax rates

2013/02/19

Housing: RBA rallies investors but not owner-occupants

2013/02/07

If Abbott is right, the federal tax system is unconstitutional

2013/02/04

Paid under protest: How to sink payroll tax

By Gavin R. Putland It is my longstanding contention that the payroll taxes charged by the Australian States and Territories are unconstit...

2013/01/21

Rating dump doomed market

2013/01/19

Is the GST unconstitutional?

2012/12/17

If land tax replaced payroll/property taxes

2012/12/14

OECD's cure for Victoria's revenue hole

2012/12/05

Wages decouple from GDP; State budgets take hit

2012/11/26

Ye exact usury...

2012/11/19

How low can interest rates go?

2012/11/15

Overall, housing looks flat in Q3

2012/11/09

Hours worked and balance of trade show little change

2012/11/05

The Great Australian Land Bubble - by State and category

Gavin R. Putland dissects Table 61.

2012/11/03

First home buyers back to 2009 without the FHOB

2012/11/02

Australian land values fall again

Aggregate land values in all categories have declined relative to GDP for the second consecutive year, writes Gavin R. Putland .

Kavanagh-Putland index inconclusive at this time

2012/11/01

Much hissing: no feathers

A submission by Prosper Australia to the Inquiry into the Minerals Resource Rent Tax Amendment (Protecting Revenue) Bill , 2012...*

2012/10/18

Seeking indicators of GDP in Q3

By Gavin R. Putland

2012/10/17

Australian housing reaches unstable equilibrium

By Gavin R. Putland The seasonally-adjusted value of lending for “investment housing - purchase for rent or resale by individuals”, aggreg...

2012/10/04

Even in WA, recessions are announced by property crashes

Gavin R. Putland processes 34 years of monthly figures from Western Australia.

2012/09/21

Falling stamp-duty receipts threaten more than revenue

2012/09/06

Daylight second: Australia relies too much on personal income tax

But conveyancing stamp duty has been the canary in the coal mine, says Gavin R. Putland .

2012/08/31

There's never ever any excuse for taxing labour

And if we agree on nothing else, we should agree on that much, says Gavin R. Putland .

2012/08/20

Stop the policy drift

2012/05/14

Home lending: Q1 trends are confirmed

2012/05/11

Abbott's selective indignation on reverse tariffs

2012/05/10

Hours worked rose in April

2012/05/07

Company tax and stamp duty will trash budgets

2012/04/12

Oz economy contracted in Q1?

2012/04/11

Lending for owner-occupation turned down in February

2012/03/28

Against all odds, AHURI quantifies stamp-duty/land-tax switch

2012/03/16

Real Estate 4 Ransom now online

2012/03/13

Housing finance shows little change

2012/03/08

Employment figures give mixed signals on GDP

2012/02/17

Fewer hours worked: lower GDP

2012/02/14

Second shoe drops in China

2012/02/13

Housing finance up, January prices down

2012/01/12

Replacing property taxes and payroll tax

2012/01/09

The Super Guarantee: Keating's Great Big Tax on Everything

2012/01/04

If Anna Bligh ran a body corporate...

2011/12/12

Beneath the housing finance headlines

2011/11/30

Payroll tax is biggest state tax

2011/11/24

Council's three strikes

2011/11/23

Financial stability and housing affordability

2011/11/16

The financial stability contour map

2011/11/14

Vacant lots portend financial doom

2011/11/03

Why protectionism is bad for workers

2011/11/01

Double first for Australian home prices

2011/10/31

ABS tracks housing bubble & burst

2011/10/25

Kavanagh-Putland index back in recession zone

2011/10/17

AFR botches another letter

2011/10/14

AFR's editing misrepresents LVRG

2011/10/02

Consumption tax can capture land rents

2011/09/30

The equal-opportunity component of national income

2011/09/17

Unreliability of stamp duty & income tax

2011/09/12

The last flight of the bullhawks

2011/08/31

The Georgist case for a consumption tax

2011/08/11

Why land tax can't be shifted onto tenants

2011/08/09

Investment home lending still at sub-GFC levels

2011/08/06

Dwelling turnover rate at 16-year low

2011/08/03

Tax Forum 2: Abolish personal income tax

2011/08/02

Tax Forum 1: Kill the GST, company tax & the MRRT

2011/07/30

Swan's agenda for non-reform

2011/07/19

Opting out of income tax & GST

2011/07/04

Fraser Coast circumvents site-value rating

2011/06/08

Owner-occupation lending bounced; investment lending didn't

2011/06/03

‘P’ is for Polyanna?

2011/05/31

It's the housing crash, stoopid!

2011/05/25

Taxation and privacy

2011/05/16

Home lending and sales at mini-recession levels

2011/05/04

Council rates and the capacity-to-pay hoax

2011/05/03

Logically bankrupt and factually wrong: Eddie Kutner on negative gearing

The Smage , having published articles critical of negative gearing on Mar.7 , Mar.30 and Apr.25 , fell back into line on May 2 when it publ...

2011/04/28

Don't call him radical: Philip Denny Day, 1924-2011

2011/04/21

More hypocrisy on negative gearing

2011/04/12

How to end the First Home Buyers' Strike without a recession

2011/04/06

Home lending sinks to 10-year low against GDP

2011/03/24

How land prices outgrew workers' incomes: the macro view

2011/03/23

Bubble deniers plead No Contest

2011/03/17

Australia's housing bubble: The warnings

2011/03/09

Home lending sinks to GFC depths

2011/02/15

Australian Housing: Beware the Ninth of March

2011/01/25

Obfuscating economic rent

2010/12/10

Housing: Behold the supply-side crash

2010/12/05

Prudent prosperity, productive austerity: Why income tax must go

2010/12/04

Bubble denier in Comical Ali mode

2010/12/03

Housing bubble exposed by ABS land values

2010/11/11

Price indices say housing has peaked

2010/10/11

Lending for housing investment at 17-month low

2010/10/03

More transparency needed in property markets

2010/10/01

40 years of housing bubbles and recessions

2010/07/15

Our reverse-protectionist tax system

2010/03/24

Bursting property bubbles: Sales crash first, then prices, then GDP

2010/03/18

Relax; housing might not crash this month

2010/02/24

Property spruikers can't Handel reality

By Gavin R. Putland Today Rory Robertson is quoted in The Age as saying “There's extraordinary and ongoing rapid growth in the number...

2010/01/13

Problem: the ‘rational’ price of land is infinite; solution: abolish income tax

2009/11/06

A better way to reduce the burden on residential ratepayers

2009/09/18

Lessons on the politics of rates reform

Or CIV: A panacea in search of a disease — A submission to the Monash Rating Strategy Review, by Gavin R. Putland Summary While there ...

2009/08/24

Stimulus without deficits

2009/08/11

What do ratepayers want anyway?

By Gavin R. Putland On August 10, at the first of Monash City Council's “information sessions” on rates reform, it was noted that in t...

2009/08/08

Rategate and the scandal of the Five Words

2009/07/31

Attention Monash ratepayers: How to calculate your bill under CIV

2009/07/17

Smart growth through tax reform

2009/06/06

The recession we had to deny

2009/06/01

From the subprime to the terrigenous: Recession begins at home

2009/04/24

Weighting the debating of rating

2009/03/25

Pure poison on land tax - Part II

By Gavin R. Putland Ten days after publishing Sinclair Davidson's hit-piece on land tax, to which I recently responded , the Melbourne...

2009/03/22

Pure poison on land tax

2009/03/02

Property sales index points to home-grown recession

Introducing the Kavanagh-Putland Index

2009/02/05

CIV rating cops broadside at Housing Affordability Congress

As the Monash City Council enlists a known supporter of CIV rating to conduct a “review” of its rating system, Gavin R. Putland provides a ...

2009/02/03

Cuckoo Economics

2009/01/28

The case for CIV Rates — decoded!

2009/01/23

The importance of a formula

2009/01/22

How Australia loses $1 trillion a year

2009/01/21

Aye, Barack Hussein Obama. Now finish those thoughts...

2009/01/16

Socialism and anarchism are more of the same

Gavin R. Putland explains why socialism is the best enemy capitalism ever had. Capital can be produced by private effort. Land cannot ...

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Stupid property owners

2008/09/01

Why Site-Value rating is better, and how to implement it with no losers

2007/10/19

Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore & Taiwan: How property taxes affect economic growth

2007/09/28

220 years later, we still avoid the issue under our feet

2007/07/07

Housing affordability, urban sprawl, Wendell Cox, and me

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