Stamp duty is holding us back from moving homes – we’ve worked out how much
- Written by Nick Garvin, Adjunct Fellow, Department of Economics, Macquarie University
This article is part of The Conversation’s series examining the housing crisis. Read the other articles in the series here.
If just one state of Australia, New South Wales, scrapped its stamp duty on real-estate transactions, about 100,000 more Australians would move homes each year, according to our best estimates.
Stamp duty is an...