This Month
Will cutting negative gearing fix the property crisis?
This week, Michael Read and Tom McIlroy discuss whether winding back the two big tax advantages to buying property – negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount – will help solve Australia’s housing crisis.
Negative gearing changes would be a drag on bank stocks: analysts
Citi examined restrictions on housing investor tax settings in New Zealand, and Australia in the 1980s, and found they helped rents go up.
- James Eyers
Naive to think Labor should have delayed Voice vote
Readers’ letters on the failed Voice referendum; home loan serviceability buffers; NDIS claims; cloud seeding; and landlord tax reform.
The housing policy choices facing voters
What are the choices facing voters in 2025 and which policies will actually help address the shortages of supply in Australia’s hectic property market?
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Property market
We’re more nuanced on negative gearing than five years ago
Disadvantages for investors – and gains for aspiring owners – would be more modest than many expect, if Australia’s property tax regime changed.
- Robert Harley
High rates, low confidence - and tax cloud - hit housing pipeline
Australia’s need for new housing is intense, but in a market where feasibilities are “challenging”, that’s not translating into new homes.
- Michael Bleby and Nila Sweeney
Chalmers digs in on negative gearing advice
Treasurer Jim Chalmers again hedged when questioned if he had asked officials to model changes to tax concessions for property investors.
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- Tom McIlroy
September
- Exclusive
- Home loans
Labor members want negative gearing changes in ambitious housing plan
Labor for Housing, a national group of members, wants Labor to adopt an 80 per cent homeownership target by 2040.
- Ronald Mizen
Negative gearing explodes | Coles’ and Woolies’ dodgy discounts | The corporate Power list
This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James and Anthony look at how the supermarket giants were accused of dodgy discounting, ask who will win the brawl over negative gearing, and examine the corporate Power list.
Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions
Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
- Daniel Arbon
Star dives 50pc; Endeavour CEO exits; Negative gearing admission
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Resorting to riddles on negative gearing treats voters as mugs
This week showed the government’s performance remains far from polished when events wander off script.
- Phillip Coorey
Broken promises show ALP can’t be trusted on negative gearing: Dutton
Labor’s broken promises on tax cuts and super mean it could still curb tax breaks for housing investors after the election, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Opinion
Labor’s smoke and mirrors on housing
Jim Chalmers and Anthony Albanese face much tougher questions about their economic agenda than the confusion about negative gearing and capital gains taxes.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Exclusive
- Property investment
These Australians are most likely to negatively gear their properties
With an average total income of $480,000, surgeons are Australia’s highest-paid professionals and the most likely workers to use negative gearing.
- Michael Read
- Opinion
- Opinion
Why Labor seems to be flirting with housing tax breaks again
The real story is that the government is desperately looking for a way out of the political dead end that has stalled any momentum in its drive to an election.
- Jennifer Hewett
PM yet to be convinced housing tax changes won’t hurt supply
The prime minister says Treasury is looking at ways to curb the use of negative gearing and capital gains tax, but it wasn’t his idea.
- Phillip Coorey
A quick guide to the politics of housing tax breaks
Anthony Albanese won’t be the last political leader to mull changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount, and he certainly is not the first.
- Tom McIlroy
‘Not unusual’: Chalmers says Treasury examining negative gearing
Jim Chalmers downplays Treasury examining negative gearing; Angus Taylor doesn’t support negative gearing change; Retail billionaire criticises Labor’s economic strategy. Follow live updates.
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- Lucy Slade
Inflation cools; PM targets negative gearing; Macquarie fined
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
