I think politicians should be banned from owning multiple properties. It’s a huge conflict of interest.
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Marsupial@quokk.au 1 month ago
How about we ban owning multiple properties, remove any incentives for property as an investment, enforce quality building standards, and use government funds to build affordable housing.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Having multiple is fine, just remove negative gearing and investment incentives along with actually enforced building standards
Nath@aussie.zone 1 month ago
People will just go back to what they did before negative gearing: Make businesses and move their properties into that. “Oh, your business made a loss paying more interest than it brought in as rent, I guess you can write that off as a loss and not pay tax on your income”.
The result is the same, but it’s more work for the ATO.
My old boss still had his holiday home under the business, because it’s how he did it before Negative Gearing was a thing.
ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Make it so that interest on money borrowed against residential real estate can’t be declared as a business loss then. That’ll also make speculating housing investment funds a bad idea
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
If that were the case we wouldn’t have aeen a sharp uptick in investment at the same time NG was introduced.
You’re always gonna have people finding ways around things, the point is to make it hard enough your average schmoe bails on the attempt
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Same thing would probably happen with property limits then