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Housing affordability (Read 405 times)
hawil
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Housing affordability
Apr 3rd, 2010 at 4:28pm
 
The “Great Australian Divide”.
In the Australian financial Review on the 25’th of March 2010 it is proudly reported on page one ”Tax breaks create a nation of landlords”
It is reported that according to the ATO (Australian Taxation Office) that investors claimed 20billion interest deductions.
Take investor A), he she has $50,000.00 in cash, borrows $300,000.00 and outbids or outbuys a first home buyer for a property, then rents the property to the first-home buyer, who needs somewhere to live. The rent does not cover all the expenses for interests and other costs which the investor A) deducts from his/her other income, and if he/she is in the $0.45 cents in the dollar tax-bracket the government pays for almost half of the cost.
The investor asset is slowly but surely being paid off by the poor renter of the property and the government.  
As many investors would have a SMSF (Self Managed Super Fund) they can eventually move the property into their SMSF and save further taxes.
The recent governments in Australia have created laws only for the benefit of the 20% of the upper end of the population as far as income is concerned, and the current government is throwing money around like it is going out of fashion, and most of the money thrown around ends up in the pockets of the upper 20%, and most current and retired politicians will be in that category, no matter from which party or independent.
When the system is put under stress as far as debt is concerned, like currently in Greece and even UK, USA or Australia, the debt is then “so-called socialized” in other words, the haves benefit and the have-nots pay for it.
The democracies in the whole Western World have been hijacked by the politicians for their and the upper 20% populations benefit, and there is no-one out there to speak out on behalf of the so-called battler.
As I mentioned in “The Great Super Fraud”, the compulsory super is the biggest fraud forced onto the Australian citizens and will only excacerbate   the divide of the rich and poor.
The worst part is that Associations like COTA, ACPSRO and its affiliated Associations and the ACTU are not representing their members as they should and only look after their top income earners; so what hope has the majority of the people.
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