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Vic Liberals pledge cuts to payroll tax, land tax as Jess Wilson unveils ‘comprehensive’ economic plan

The Victorian Liberals and Nationals have pledged to cut payroll tax, reverse Labor’s land tax hikes, and deliver…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #Allan #AU #Labor #landtax #liberal #liberals #nationals #payrolltax #TaxCuts #Victoria #wilson
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/660430/

Vic Liberals pledge cuts to payroll tax, land tax as Jess Wilson unveils ‘comprehensive’ economic plan

The Victorian Liberals and Nationals have pledged to cut payroll tax, reverse Labor’s land tax hikes, and deliver…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #Allan #AU #Labor #landtax #liberal #liberals #nationals #payrolltax #TaxCuts #Victoria #wilson
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/660430/

Coastal Towns Face Double Bind: Rising Seas and Escalating Taxes

Phillip Island residents successfully lowered their land tax by proving flood risk was ignored in property valuations. Learn how this affects coastal communities.

#PhillipIsland, #LandTax, #FloodRisk, #PropertyValuation, #ClimateChange

https://newsletter.tf/phillip-island-lower-land-tax-flood-risk/

Coastal Towns Face Double Bind: Rising Seas and Escalating Taxes

Phillip Island residents successfully lowered their land tax by proving flood risk was ignored in property valuations. Learn how this affects coastal communities.

#PhillipIsland, #LandTax, #FloodRisk, #PropertyValuation, #ClimateChange

https://newsletter.tf/phillip-island-lower-land-tax-flood-risk/

Coastal Towns Face Double Bind: Rising Seas and Escalating Taxes

Phillip Island residents successfully lowered their land tax by proving flood risk was ignored in property valuations. Learn how this affects coastal communities.

#PhillipIsland, #LandTax, #FloodRisk, #PropertyValuation, #ClimateChange

https://newsletter.tf/phillip-island-lower-land-tax-flood-risk/

Coastal Towns Face Double Bind: Rising Seas and Escalating Taxes

Phillip Island residents successfully lowered their land tax by proving flood risk was ignored in property valuations. Learn how this affects coastal communities.

#PhillipIsland, #LandTax, #FloodRisk, #PropertyValuation, #ClimateChange

https://newsletter.tf/phillip-island-lower-land-tax-flood-risk/

Coastal Towns Face Double Bind: Rising Seas and Escalating Taxes

Phillip Island residents successfully lowered their land tax by proving flood risk was ignored in property valuations. Learn how this affects coastal communities.

#PhillipIsland, #LandTax, #FloodRisk, #PropertyValuation, #ClimateChange

https://newsletter.tf/phillip-island-lower-land-tax-flood-risk/

Dozens of Phillip Island residents have successfully reduced their land tax bills by up to 15% after proving their properties' flood risks were not considered in official valuations.

#PhillipIsland, #LandTax, #FloodRisk, #PropertyValuation, #ClimateChange
https://newsletter.tf/phillip-island-lower-land-tax-flood-risk/

Dozens of Phillip Island residents have successfully reduced their land tax bills by up to 15% after proving their properties' flood risks were not considered in official valuations.

#PhillipIsland, #LandTax, #FloodRisk, #PropertyValuation, #ClimateChange
https://newsletter.tf/phillip-island-lower-land-tax-flood-risk/

Dozens of Phillip Island residents have successfully reduced their land tax bills by up to 15% after proving their properties' flood risks were not considered in official valuations.

#PhillipIsland, #LandTax, #FloodRisk, #PropertyValuation, #ClimateChange
https://newsletter.tf/phillip-island-lower-land-tax-flood-risk/

Dozens of Phillip Island residents have successfully reduced their land tax bills by up to 15% after proving their properties' flood risks were not considered in official valuations.

#PhillipIsland, #LandTax, #FloodRisk, #PropertyValuation, #ClimateChange
https://newsletter.tf/phillip-island-lower-land-tax-flood-risk/

Dozens of Phillip Island residents have successfully reduced their land tax bills by up to 15% after proving their properties' flood risks were not considered in official valuations.

#PhillipIsland, #LandTax, #FloodRisk, #PropertyValuation, #ClimateChange
https://newsletter.tf/phillip-island-lower-land-tax-flood-risk/

@GhostOnTheHalfShell Exactly. Victoria is currently running the "progressive" tax playbook that San Francisco's Proposition M (the "Empty Homes Tax") aimed for—but with more teeth.
​Here is the breakdown:
​1. The Vacancy Reality
​While SF's version has faced legal hurdles and local pushback, Victoria’s Vacant Residential Land Tax (VRLT) is already live. As of January 1, 2026, it has expanded to the entire state. If a property is empty for 6+ months, the tax hits hard and grows every year:
​Year 1: 1% of the property’s total value.
​Year 2: 2%.
​Year 3+: 3%.
​On a $1M home, that’s a $30,000 yearly penalty just for keeping it empty.
​2. Targeting "Land Banking"
​Starting this year (2026), Victoria is also taxing unimproved land in Melbourne that’s been sitting undeveloped for 5 years. It stops investors from just holding dirt and waiting for a payday while people struggle to find homes.
​3. The "Stagnation" Secret

​The media calls Melbourne’s flat house prices a "weak market," but it’s likely the policy working. By lowering the land tax threshold to just $50,000, the state has made it expensive to hold multiple properties. Investors are selling off because the "holding costs" now outweigh the profit.
​It’s a massive experiment in using tax to force houses back onto the market—and the silence from the mainstream press suggests the "investor class" is feeling the squeeze.
​
#housingjustice #vicpol #vacancytax #melbourneproperty #landtax

Can we do this in #Sacramento ? (I guess a #LandTax would do too.) https://www.abridged.org/news/landlords-with-empty-storefronts-across-citrus-heights-may-face-new-penalties/

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Victoria's higher land taxes on investors have made Melbourne Australia's most affordable capital: slower price rises, more first-home buyers, gentler rent hikes. Data shows this benefits the majority—78% of Aussie households aren't property investors, but buyers, renters, or dreamers locked out by speculation.
Nationally adopting this could close wealth gaps & ease housing pain for most of us.
Yet the ABC still panders to corporate overlords, skewing reports to fret over the investor minority while sidelining the 78% majority struggling.
Time for fairer policies that put people first.

#Auspol #HousingCrisis #LandTax #Australia #AffordableHousing

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-19/melbourne-house-prices-affordable-capital-city/106210992

In this article, Leith van Onselen skirts around what has been a cornerstone of his previous arguments that Victoria’s investor targeted land tax hikes that have arguably made housing more accessible for first home buyers. Instead, he veers into vague statements about the state’s economy being ‘weak’ and ‘crime’ being a concern, without evidence or explanation. If he truly prioritised readers, he’d lean into the policy discussion he used to champion and not include superficial and distracting comments that detract from a meaningful dialogue on affordability.

#auspol #housingcrsis #landtax #vestedInterests #propertylobby

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/09/if-you-want-a-cheaper-house-move-to-melbourne/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1051137716302868 “this impact differs between residential land and commercial and industrial land. Residential land appears to be more responsive to changes in the tax differential than commercial and industrial land” We found a similar effect looking at #cville assessment data, we think because commercial and industrial land is more likely to be surface parking. #LandValueTax #LandTax #TaxReform #housing #Georgism

https://nation.cymru/news/plans-to-replace-unfair-council-tax-still-on-the-cards/ “The current system is unfairly weighted against those who experience difficulty in paying. I want to shift the focus from harmful escalation towards supportive prevention” #Wales #housing #LandTax #TaxReform #equity #shortage #CouncilTax #georgism

Melbourne: A rare house price oasis in Australia’s overheated property market.

While most capitals are pricing out first home buyers, Melbourne is quietly becoming more accessible — thanks in large part to Victoria’s investor-targeted tax regime.

No praise, of course, is given to the state government for:
• The Vacant Residential Land Tax (discouraging empty homes)
• Higher land tax rates on investment properties
• The windfall gains tax on rezoned land

These measures have cooled investor demand and helped keep prices within reach of everyday buyers. Other states take note.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/05/how-melbourne-transformed-into-a-house-price-oasis/

#melbourneproperty #housingaffordability #firsthomebuyer #victoriapolitics #propertyinvestors #realestateaus #melbournehousing #australianproperty #housingpolicy #landtax #macrobusiness #propertymarket

Melbourne: A rare house price oasis in Australia’s overheated property market.

While most capitals are pricing out first home buyers, Melbourne is quietly becoming more accessible — thanks in large part to Victoria’s investor-targeted tax regime.

No praise, of course, is given to the state government for:
• The Vacant Residential Land Tax (discouraging empty homes)
• Higher land tax rates on investment properties
• The windfall gains tax on rezoned land

These measures have cooled investor demand and helped keep prices within reach of everyday buyers. Other states take note.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/05/how-melbourne-transformed-into-a-house-price-oasis/

#melbourneproperty #housingaffordability #firsthomebuyer #victoriapolitics #propertyinvestors #realestateaus #melbournehousing #australianproperty #housingpolicy #landtax #macrobusiness #propertymarket

Melbourne: A rare house price oasis in Australia’s overheated property market.

While most capitals are pricing out first home buyers, Melbourne is quietly becoming more accessible — thanks in large part to Victoria’s investor-targeted tax regime.

No praise, of course, is given to the state government for:
• The Vacant Residential Land Tax (discouraging empty homes)
• Higher land tax rates on investment properties
• The windfall gains tax on rezoned land

These measures have cooled investor demand and helped keep prices within reach of everyday buyers. Other states take note.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/05/how-melbourne-transformed-into-a-house-price-oasis/

#melbourneproperty #housingaffordability #firsthomebuyer #victoriapolitics #propertyinvestors #realestateaus #melbournehousing #australianproperty #housingpolicy #landtax #macrobusiness #propertymarket

Melbourne: A rare house price oasis in Australia’s overheated property market.

While most capitals are pricing out first home buyers, Melbourne is quietly becoming more accessible — thanks in large part to Victoria’s investor-targeted tax regime.

No praise, of course, is given to the state government for:
• The Vacant Residential Land Tax (discouraging empty homes)
• Higher land tax rates on investment properties
• The windfall gains tax on rezoned land

These measures have cooled investor demand and helped keep prices within reach of everyday buyers. Other states take note.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/05/how-melbourne-transformed-into-a-house-price-oasis/

#melbourneproperty #housingaffordability #firsthomebuyer #victoriapolitics #propertyinvestors #realestateaus #melbournehousing #australianproperty #housingpolicy #landtax #macrobusiness #propertymarket

Melbourne: A rare house price oasis in Australia’s overheated property market.

While most capitals are pricing out first home buyers, Melbourne is quietly becoming more accessible — thanks in large part to Victoria’s investor-targeted tax regime.

No praise, of course, is given to the state government for:
• The Vacant Residential Land Tax (discouraging empty homes)
• Higher land tax rates on investment properties
• The windfall gains tax on rezoned land

These measures have cooled investor demand and helped keep prices within reach of everyday buyers. Other states take note.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/05/how-melbourne-transformed-into-a-house-price-oasis/

#melbourneproperty #housingaffordability #firsthomebuyer #victoriapolitics #propertyinvestors #realestateaus #melbournehousing #australianproperty #housingpolicy #landtax #macrobusiness #propertymarket

I also see that Classification of land and improvements for tax purposes; localities. ( HB1561 https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1561 ) from Delegates McNamara and Callsen has been sent to the House Committee on Finance. This bill streamlines the tax powers granted to localities (yes, even for you Poquoson), permitting many #housing and #transit problems to be addressed statewide, something I have been working on for many years now. #LandTax #SplitRateTax #TaxReform

#LandTax #decolonize #SanFrancisco

"The Yunakin Land Tax is a financial contribution made by residents who live along the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco County, in San Mateo County, and the portion of Santa Clara County northwest from Cupertino. You can make a one time or recurring contribution.

Yunakin is the Ramaytush word for village. It is used here to convey our commonality as a community of people who live and work together in the ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples.​"

https://www.ramaytush.org/donate.html

@TimWardCam (Also, since #LandTax would be due to the local community council, everyone in the community would have an interest in seeing that due tax was collected, so 'unregistered' pieces of land like this would be quickly noticed).

@TimWardCam The Land Register is *supposed* to be being updated, and is *supposed* to become complete. But there are patches of land, e.g. on the sore of the bay here, which literally didn't exist fifty years ago and which have been enclosed by neighbouring landowners on very doubtful authority...

However, under my proposed scheme, if you have registered ownership of it, and pay due #LandTax on it, it's yours; if either of those things isn't so, it's common.

I envisage that a common form of land management would be small farms and crofts leased on #Liferent from the local community, which would not pay #LandTax (because the land would continue to be owned in common), but would pay a rental.

#LandReform
#ScotPol

/ends

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liferent

Finally, as I said above, land on which the #LandTax was not paid would automatically revert to common -- i.e. to the management of the local community. This would drive rapid and effective #LandReform.

I envisage that #ScotGov would appoint a Common Lands Factor to manage lands on behalf of those communities who chose not to manage it themselves.

Continued

Fifth, if you try to fiddle the system by hiding ownership behind multiple shell companies, for example, the automatic penalty for being found out (i.e. having to pay the additional #LandTax) would be extremely large, and would increase with each year you weren't found out -- a huge disincentive to avoidance.

Continued

This is where Common Weal is JUST DEAD WRONG. This is a BAD plan.

Why?

It taxes the poor crofter and the working farmer at exactly the same rate as the vast holdings of hereditary aristocrats and unscrupulous #Greenwashing kleptocrats.

There is no incentive to split estates into smaller holdings: instead, economies of scale drive expansion.

Any #LandTax MUST have a proportional element -- as #IncomeTax does -- so that the more land you hold, the more tax you pay on each hectare.

"the one favoured by Common
Weal, is a #LandTax or Property Tax (PT) based
on the market value of the land. This tax takes
into account the price of the land plus any
developments on it, essentially treating the
11Common Weal Taxing Scotland’s Land
land itself as no different from any other kind
of property in terms of being a valuable, and
thus taxable, wealth asset"

[formatting from PDF, which I have not tidied up. This is how the publishers wanted you to read it]

https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf

"The high profile failure of a
local community to be able to enact a community
buyout of the Tayvallich Estate in Argyll – which
had an asking price of £10.5 million, equivalent
to around £7,800 per hectare – is indicative of
Scotland’s broader failure to enact #LandReform
and will only be one of many such failures until
reform is embedded. A local #LandTax can, should,
and must be a part of this reform"

#ScotPol

https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf

"To raise tax revenues, the answer is obvious. Tax the returns from land ownership. Because the quantity and quality of land do not react negatively to such taxes, unlike effort and investment. Also land can't avoid tax by migrating". Good idea? #LandTax https://archive.ph/dCO1v

@VintageEdmonton Edmonton has a noble history of progressive governance. When American reformers were trying to figure out how to improve their cities, they looked to #Edmonton for hope https://www.jstor.org/stable/23398762?seq=16 #landtax #hudsonbaycompany

If we taxed land properly, we'd have billions of extra dollars to fund big tax cuts elsewhere. So why don't we do it? #landtax #vacantpropertytax #auspol #homelessness

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-24/tax-land-properly-27-billion-in-tax-revenue-prosper-australia/103623806

@SteveJonesnono1 @thecommongreen while we're on the subject of progressive ideas, can I bore everyone yet again with the simplest and most progressive tax of all? (And yes, of course, this is all within devolved competence.)

#LandReform
#LandTax

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2014-12-09-me-and-you-and-the-duke-of-buccleuch/

It looks like #cartax reform is not proceeding in #virginia this year. I am conflicted on this tax as it appears are my friends in the legislature. I don’t think that taxing car owners is the best way to fund schools, but I do think that we should fund schools. I’d like to see the tax fall on vehicle weight instead of value, and I think the funds should be used for health, safety, and transportation improvements and schools should be funded by a statewide #landtax instead https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/virginia-car-tax-youngkin-general-assembly/article_a484487e-c055-11ee-ba7d-3b23911ef22d.html

#HappyThanksgiving everyone in #BellinghamWA and in particular on our #SubduedSocial Mastodon instance. In recognition that we live on the ancestral lands of our neighbors the #Lummi, #Nooksack, and other #CoastSalish peoples, I made another voluntary #LandTax donation to the Lhaq'temish Foundation equivalent to 10% of our hosting costs and domain registration fees over the past 6 months.

https://nativegov.org/news/voluntary-land-taxes/ https://www.lhaqtemish.org/

#Thanksgiving #NativeLand #NativeAmericanHeritageDay

@gnutelephony @strypey So-called #ModernMonetaryTheory is just rebranding #moneyPrinterGoDrr-Keynesianism with some extra layers of virtue signalling.

We don't want to be a part of a top down #technoFascist autocracy, with a corporate captured govt watching every transaction. No to #CloudGlare taking our banks. No to losing cheques and cash.

Yes to #horizontal movement of money between people. Yes to #landTax and #GST. Yes a currency (#BTC) that by default, rewards #savers who help our planet.

I just calculated everything we paid for #SubduedSocial hosting & domain registration this year so far, and our donation rate is looking good enough to cover costs with a bit of safety margin. So I went ahead and made a voluntary #LandTax donation to the Lhaq'temish Foundation equivalent to 10% of our hosting costs. I haven't found a way to do recurring donations to them or any other local native nonprofit, so I'll just do it periodically by hand. https://nativegov.org/news/voluntary-land-taxes/ https://www.lhaqtemish.org/

The 59 leading economists surveyed by Economic Society of #Australia were asked to pick from a list of options. How top economists would raise $20 billion per year.
#landtax #resourcetax #InheritanceTax #negativegearing #taxtherich #auspol

https://theconversation.com/inheritance-taxes-resource-taxes-and-an-attack-on-negative-gearing-how-top-economists-would-raise-20-billion-per-year-202630

@Downes
While that may sound nice what that requires is #massSurveillance of all payments, which is highly unethical, and goes against #Article12 of the #UNCharter, the #RightToPrivacy.

The most ethical way to acheive balance is to have a #LandTax that goes up exponentially the more land one owns, based on Improved value of land. Also known as Georgism because it was popularised a century ago by Henry George in 'Progress and Poverty'.

#privacy

@lightweight

@norightturnnz Have you seen the TOP policy on doing a land value tax instead of a CGT, and allowing payments to be deferred until the sale of the house, so it kind of, sort of, doubles as an inheritance tax? Thoughts?

New leader Raf Manji talks about it in the 26 Oct interview with Toby Manhire on the Gone By Lunchtime podcast:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/gone-by-lunchtime

#podcasts #GoneByLunchtime #TOP #RafManji #CGT #LandTax

@Godcast
Our definition of redpilling is likely going to be slightly different to yours.

Ie. #PeakOil and resisting #overpopulation, overdevelopment and overshoot.
- Stop producing #refugees via endless wars.
- Move away from the #legacyWeb toward internet anonymisation
- ethical, hard-money #bitcoin/monero,
- stop #politicalDonations and political mass media #advertising,
- progressive #LandTax without Income Tax (ie. #Georgism),
- Trust bust #CAGEFAM and their tyranny.

The #AncientGreeks worked out how to compel their equivalent of today's #billionaires to pay their fair share in #tax.

When they don't, we all suffer.

Its reportedly called #antidosis (in english, #exchange) and it involves the #billionaireClass competing to pay the most tax they can, lest an #organicSwap/ exchange may occur.

In the spirit of #DickSmith's #FairGo read about how it works here:
http://www.john-williams.org/antidosis.html

We love reading stuff like this.

#cantillionEffect #landTax

3/3

> "…replace taxation brackets with a #flatTax rate. 👉 Additional top-up payments for aged, #disabled, #carers, etc, to match existing rates and achieve a minimum #liveableIncome for their needs. 👉 Net take-home income will not change substantially for many, but every citizen will receive the benefit of security that a UBI affords."

This above page also includes "replac[ing] #stampDuty with more equitable revenue streams such as #landTax".

Great policies deserve attention.

@MechaSilvio

This is why its for the best that a transition is made toward #LandTax based on Rental Value. Less beaurocracy, less grifty gaming, less #taxEvasion, less ridiculousness generally.

#henryGeorge #geoism

@WoodshopHandman @sapphire