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the bad economics behind swapping stamp duty for land tax

  • Written by Cameron Murray, Lecturer in Economics, The University of Queensland
the bad economics behind swapping stamp duty for land taxEliminating stamp duty would bring on more real estate transactions, but that might not be a good thing.Shutterstock

To paraphrase former prime minister Paul Keating, walk into any pet shop in the country and you’ll find the resident galah saying we should swap stamp duty for a land value tax.

Just about every economic think tank in the land...

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