Author Description

Housing and Tax Policy Brings together leading Australian and international experts to shed new light on these policy problems. Contributors present new analysis of: The size of tax expenditures for housing and their efficiency, price and distributional impact. International experience from the United States and Europe, including new research on how home ownership tax expenditures operate to subsidise excessive borrowing and house price risk. Reforms need to state duties and land tax for housing in Australia. The impact of taxation, including negative gearing, on the supply of affordable rental housing, and designing reforms to increase accessibility of home ownership.