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The government has asked for bold proposals. Maybe it’s time to consider taxing the family home

  • Written by Peter Siminski, Professor of Economics, University of Technology Sydney
The government has asked for bold proposals. Maybe it’s time to consider taxing the family homeElias Bitar/Shutterstock

The Australian government has “an appetite to be bold and ambitious” in its economic reform agenda. And tax reform is on the menu at its much-publicised reform roundtable, to be held next week.

Here, we serve some food for thought – the taxation of owner-occupied housing. This may seem distasteful, but...

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