Coalition vows to repeal Labor’s ‘toxic’ negative gearing and capital gains tax budget changes (www.theguardian.com)

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Anyone surprised?

In the meantime, The Greens want to "drive a hard bargain with Labor before committing to pass the measures through parliament"... and say "the changes for property investment were little more than “tinkering around the edges” and as much as 95% of the benefits of the existing rules would remain".

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[-] auzy1@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Investors have been threatening they're going to sell their properties for years. And on facebook, there are many who literally say they're important and they're doing everyone a favor by investing.

Despite saying that, it hasn't happened.

Even when interest rates were decreasing, they still ramping up rent then too. First home buyers aren't negative gearing (because they're living in it), so this is a sensible move

[-] YeahToast@aussie.zone 2 points 18 hours ago

People have such skewed expectations. I don't know why people think investments need to be guaranteed (there's inherent risk in investments). It also flabbergasts me people think investments > home ownership.

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