zulumuster
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zulumuster
@ZuluMuster
Archaeology, Politics, CT, Security. Zulumuster: a Light Horse term still used today ie. holding the horses for rest of the troop while they go into action.

@AustralianLabor Of the 46,022 places taken up in 2024-25 under this scheme, 15,400+ of them were allocated to permanent residents. housingaustralia.gov.au/research-data-… That's more than a third to non-citizens. You are literally helping foreigners outbid young Australians at auctions.






Hang on Jimbo. You can't do modelling forward? Didn't you model a $2 rise in weekly rents? Or 35,000 less homes being built? But you can't model forward the impact of CGT changes on shares? You can't hate this bloke enough... #Gaslighter #Incompetent


Can someone please explain in simple language why Australia shouldn't ban short term rentals like Airbnb? If we did that, it would free up literally thousands of houses and bring them back into the rental market & discourage investors owning multiple short term rental properties




If tax policy is the fundamental issue for you when you are starting a business, perhaps stick to knitting ...

I did not realise they were taxing gross rather than net gains… AFR: Investors with diversified share portfolios making a mix of gains and losses compared to inflation could face tax rates of more than 100 per cent on real gains, due to the Albanese government not compensating investors for underperforming stocks. A former senior Treasury tax official and a hedge fund manager both warned that people with a diversified portfolio of shares could face tax rates 50 per cent higher than Treasury calculated… Chalmers’ office and Treasury were contacted for comment on Thursday about whether real losses would be indexed to inflation. Under another example, an investor buys shares in Coles and Woolworths, with one outperforming inflation and the other underperforming inflation. The overall real return is zero after inflation, but the investor would pay tax on the winning stock. If an investor instead bought an ETF of supermarkets with the same overall result, they would pay no tax. afr.com/policy/tax-and…












