{"id":93114,"date":"2024-03-22T04:15:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/?p=93114"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:20:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T04:20:54","slug":"poll-supports-winding-back-tax-breaks-for-investment-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/real-estate\/poll-supports-winding-back-tax-breaks-for-investment-properties\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll supports winding back tax breaks for investment properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody&#8217;s Home says a new poll suggests most Australians are open to winding back tax breaks for property investors, with less than a quarter supporting the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>The national social and affordable housing advocates commissioned a RedBridge poll of more than 1,500 Australian voters, and announced the results on Monday this week.<\/p>\n<p>The poll&#8217;s results included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three in five voters (58 percent) support limiting or abolishing negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount<\/li>\n<li>Voters who do not own an investment property are more open to reform (62 percent), and<\/li>\n<li>One in five voters are either unsure (20 percent) or do not want change (22 percent).<\/li>\n<li>Nearly half of voters (47 percent) are in housing stress, defined as spending at least 30 percent of their income on housing. About a third (32 per cent) are spending 40 percent or more.<\/li>\n<li>Younger voters (18-34) are hit the hardest, with half of the cohort spending 40 percent or more of their income on housing, compared with only 9 percent of those aged 65 and older.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everybody&#8217;s Home spokesperson Maiy Azize said housing stress was rife.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The appetite for change is here, and it&#8217;s happening in the absence of leadership from the major parties who are afraid to champion tax reform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is political folklore and a tired trope that negative gearing cost Labor the 2019 election when there were a range of factors at play.<\/p>\n<p>Five years on and a worsening housing crisis later, Australian voters want reform on unfair tax breaks for investors.<\/p>\n<p>There is a huge opportunity for the politicians who are bold enough to take on this policy reform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investor tax handouts benefit those who already own property, and make it harder for those who do not. Most voters don&#8217;t get these handouts but are poorer for it as billions of taxpayer dollars prop up investors every year. They are driving up housing costs and making wealth inequality worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said investor tax breaks had turned housing into an asset instead of a basic social need.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Voters know it&#8217;s unfair that landlords get handouts when so many can&#8217;t afford a home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This housing crisis has been decades in the making as successive governments have chosen to featherbed private investors while walking away from building homes themselves &#8211; they have turned their backs not only on people on the lowest incomes but also on ordinary Australians who are struggling to afford a place to live.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The federal government must abolish these unfair investor handouts and use the savings to build hundreds of thousands of social homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s past time our national leaders prioritised housing for all over the profits of investors.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody&#8217;s Home says a new poll suggests most Australians are open to winding back tax breaks for property investors, with less than a quarter supporting the status quo. 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