Australian 'Experts' Propose Tax On Spare Bedrooms To Ease Housing Shortage

[border_humper]

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In a brainstorm that has leftist central planners around the world salivating, an Australian market analytics firm has proposed that the country start imposing a tax on spare bedrooms. The aim: To ease the country's housing shortage by incentivizing those who have more housing than they "need" to sell and downsize.

Cotality Australia notes that 61% of the country's households comprise just one or two people, yet the housing stock is dominated by three- and four-bedroom homes. Cotality says that, to "fix" this discrepancy, "governments could make it more expensive to have more housing than you need, and cheaper to live in smaller housing."
“It’s perfectly acceptable and desirable for people to have spare bedrooms, [but] you could ask them to pay for it through land tax," Cotality Australia head of research Eliza Owen told the Sydney Morning Herald. "Or you could incentivize them to move on through the abolition of stamp duty or some combination of both." The stamp duty is an Australian tax on property transfers that's paid by buyers. Depending on factors that include location and purpose -- for example, whether the buyer is going to live in the home or use it as an investment -- it usually falls between 3 and 5% of the property's value.

Another bankrupt commonwealth idea.

 

[Hirudinea]

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Another bankrupt commonwealth idea.

border_humper
I'm sure Carney is looking at this with great interest.

 

[ovarieasy]

What's next? A window tax?

 

[416_Refugee]

I've been calling this for a few years now. Next step is that you get a tax break for putting invaders in those extra rooms. What they don't say is that the taxes will be so high, you have no choice but to take in invaders.

 

[Hirudinea]

And you'll rent them rooms for $1000 a pop, they will refuse to pay, you'll not be able to legally get them out and if you take it to court it will drain you so much you'll have to sell the house.

 

[416_Refugee]

And when the bank or government or appointed corporation owns the house and it's occupied by invaders, it'll be so very well maintained.

The film Africa Addio provides a detailed glimpse into this, in the sections on Kenya.

 

[Jack Layton]

Racist problems like open airports aren't problems.

 

[Chobes]

Is this what the song Beds are Burning is about?

 

[brutana_dilewski]

i already pay property tax. fuck off Randy

 

[ChevChelios]

Now you know the purpose of the Boomer-hatred that has been artificially sown in public discourse for the past several years: it won't be the government bringing in a million jeets every year that's responsible for the housing shortage, but 75-year-old Mrs. Smith in her three-bedroom home that she's owned for 40 years and which is now mostly empty because her kids grew up and moved away. Young left-wingers, who on account of their brainwashing cannot bring themselves to correctly identify immigration as the cause of any social problem, are all too happy to scapegoat a group of people who are mostly white and relatively affluent

 

[Hirudinea]

"Fuck the Rich!", I can hear the chants now.

 

[ButteryBastard]

I definitely see this devolving into a situation where you pay an absurd tax or house an African migrant.

If you’re buying a house, best case scenario is to buy one with as few bedrooms as you can and target houses with an unfinished basement. That way you can expand if needed without them knowing.

 

[Beers2Freedom]

you pay an absurd tax or get raped and murdered by an African/Indian/Pakistani migrant.

There, fixed it for you. Then he lives in your house and has a spare room for his rape gang.

Now It's like the UK, Germany and most of Europe.

 

[ChevChelios]

Look up the phenomenon of "cuckooing" in the UK, where drug dealers gradually move into the houses of junkies or the mentally disabled and take them over for business purposes

 

[Glowie]

IT PUTS THE LOTION ON ITS SKIN OR ELSE IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN!!

Good luck migrants

 

[ChevChelios]

"What is it, Agent Starling?"
"Oh my God, he's making a... jeet-suit"

 

[Hirudinea]

"Oh, well that explains the smell."

 

[Beers2Freedom]

"governments could make it more expensive to have more housing than you need, and cheaper to live in smaller housing."
“It’s perfectly acceptable and desirable for people to have spare bedrooms, [but] you could ask them to pay for it through land tax,"

What the party says, goes. Welcome to Communism. It's for the greater good (of the party in power).

 

[ayn_rands_ghost]

Dog houses for all!

I guess too you could fit 12-15 jeets in each bedroom plus a couple in the closet?

 

[BeerAndOil]

Suddenly there is a surge in demand for home renovation contractors that specialize in building luxury master bedrooms with walk in closets.

 

[border_humper]

I guess this is the obvious homeowner reaction to a simultaneous housing shortage with a housing market collapse.

 

[ovarieasy]

Who determines what a bedroom is? Is it based on potential use?
My office could be a bedroom. My basement could be a bedroom. What about the garage? Could probably fit someone in the attic.

 

[416_Refugee]

MLS database has all that information and is 'close enough'. Better hope that some dishonest realtor didn't list that funny little room off the kitchen, or a closed in back porch as a bedroom at some point... (I've seen it!)

 

[CaptainTrouble]

The year is 2040. Your delinquent cousin who is addicted to fentanyl is couch surfing at your place. You pay him $30/day to avoid the vacant couch tax of $50/day. Your cousin uses this money to buy fentanyl. He also receives $30k/yr from the UBI that you pay for with your taxes. He knows he has leverage over you for staying on your couch so he treats you like shit and you're forced to put up with it. You're still trying to payoff your student loans but taxes keep going up.

 

[Hirudinea]

Oh that is completely unrealistic! The cousin would get his fent. free from the government (Chinese, Canadian, what's the difference?) so he probably spends his money on Funko pops. As for the rest of it, yeah, sounds about right.