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Anyone following the NSW state election campaign would get the impression stamp duty is on the way out, which would be a good thing.
Just about every investigation of Australia’s tax system has wanted it abolished. By taxing homeowners who move rather than stay put, it penalises moving in order to get a better job, or downsizing and upsizing as family sizes change.
Both sides of NSW politics have promised to get rid of it for low-price first homebuyers. But as Joey Moloney explains this morning, neither side is serious. Stamp duty has grown to the point it accounts for more than one-fifth of state government revenues. Without the courage to name the tax that will replace it, they are merely tinkering and posturing.
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Peter Martin
Business + Economy Editor
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Joey Moloney, Grattan Institute; Brendan Coates, Grattan Institute
Neither NSW Labor nor the NSW Coalition is actually proposing to axe stamp duty. Neither are any of the other states or territories, apart from the ACT.
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