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The Federal government says it wants to make the housing system fairer. Amid reports its considering reforms to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount. The housing market has reached a tipping point and that negative gearing should be wound back.

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00:02Negative gearing rules enable you to deduct from the income that you make in your job losses that you make
00:09in relation to an investment property that you own or other investments that you own.
00:16Alongside that are a set of rules as to how you might be taxed when you make gains from those
00:20investments.
00:21But talking specifically about negative gearing it means that someone who's on a very high income can effectively deduct losses
00:27and pay less income tax while their investment is growing in value.
00:32Now what we find is that internationally these rules that Australia has whereby you can use investment losses to cut
00:40down how much income tax you pay are really unusual.
00:42Very very few countries do it and they sit alongside a set of discounts that we have for when you
00:49eventually sell your property and make a capital gain you get a very preferential tax concession at that point.
00:56And so the negative gearing that you get on the way through alongside the capital gains tax concession that you
01:02get when you sell the property combined to make housing a very lucrative investment.
01:06The principal effect that our recommendations would have so you know just pulling back a little bit on negative gearing
01:13and halving the capital gains tax discount.
01:15The principal effect that would have is shifting the number of investors and the number of first home buyers in
01:22the market.
01:23So we actually don't think there'll be a huge impact in prices.
01:26We estimate it to be about 1% which is really not very much given how much price growth we've
01:30seen.
01:31Likewise we don't estimate there to be significant impacts on supply or significant impacts on rent.
01:37Again we've got some estimates there they're pretty small.
01:40But the biggest impact is in that changing composition.
01:43So we'll see less investors borrowing money to go into the market and we'll see them being replaced by first
01:48home buyers.
01:48And that's the really important point because what we've seen through this period of escalating house prices and increasing numbers
01:55of investors is we've seen home ownership drop in the Australian population
01:59and particularly for younger generations.
02:01And that's the thing that we really need to address and why we think that these absolutely should be in
02:07the Treasurer's consideration as part of this budget process.
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