Cgt Changes : tout ce que l'on sait à l'instant

Cgt Changes en Australia fait l'actualité ce jeudi. Selon Abc.net, Seven years ago, proposed changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing were named as part of the reason Labor lost the unlosable election.

Les faits

• Seven years ago, proposed changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing were named as part of the reason Labor lost the unlosable election.
• Seven years ago, proposed changes to CGT and negative gearing were named as part of the reason Labor lost the unlosable election.
• If reports are to be believed (the same ones the government hasn't gone out of its way to correct), the May 12 budget is expected roll back the 50 per cent CGT discount for assets held for more than 12 months — potentially reverting back to the pre-1999 system.
• Massive paper profits earned over recent years by property investors will be shielded from Labor’s changes to the CGT discount, after Jim Chalmers said any new tax rules would “recognise the decisions that people have taken in the past”.
• Chalmers said the government was mindful of “transitional issues” around tax changes, suggesting that only the future gains on an existing investment would be subject to the new CGT rules.

L'essentiel

Abc.net indique que Seven years ago, proposed changes to CGT and negative gearing were named as part of the reason Labor lost the unlosable election. D'après Abc.net, If reports are to be believed (the same ones the government hasn't gone out of its way to correct), the May 12 budget is expected roll back the 50 per cent CGT discount for assets held for more than 12 months — potentially reverting back to the pre-1999 system. Comme le souligne the Guardian, Massive paper profits earned over recent years by property investors will be shielded from Labor’s changes to the CGT discount, after Jim Chalmers said any new tax rules would “recognise the decisions that people have taken in the past”. Selon the Guardian, Chalmers said the government was mindful of “transitional issues” around tax changes, suggesting that only the future gains on an existing investment would be subject to the new CGT rules.

Les chiffres

Australian Financial Review indique que the federal government has been considering a “back to the future” overhaul of capital gains tax, signalling a potential return to the pre-1999 method of taxing inflation-adjusted “real” gains rather than applying the current flat 50 per cent discount. “I think that even if you just go back to around the turn of the century, those changes that were made to capital gains [to the current regime in 1999], you can see that that’s had an impact in the composition of the housing market. (the Guardian) Comme le souligne the Guardian, Economic modelling suggests changes to tax settings for investors could lower home prices by between 1% and 4%, but that it could lift home ownership rates by three percentage points as investors are discouraged from buying property. Selon Abc.net, But as the cliche goes, a week is a long time in politics: 2019 might as well be another lifetime.

Ce qu'ils disent

“Without getting into hypotheticals about policies, what you try and do is to make sure that we recognise the decisions that people have taken in the past,” he told the CommBank View podcast. (the Guardian) “If you do a partial or staged form of grandfathering you would get additional revenue in the door more quickly, but you would add complexity to the system, which I think is a risk,” Yeaman said. (the Guardian) “We’re not trying to target a certain change necessarily in price,” he said. (the Guardian)

Le contexte

Selon Abc.net, Welcome back to your weekly federal politics update, where Courtney Gould gets you up to speed on the happenings from Parliament House. Abc.net indique que Inflation rose to 4.6 per cent in March, the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirmed. D'après Abc.net, And things didn't get any easier this week after he inflated the price tag of the Coalition's fuel reserve scheme from $800 million to $80 billion. Comme le souligne Abc.net, the actual cost to boost Australia's storage facilities would be around $6 billion, so the $800 million was simply a contribution.

Recherches associées

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À retenir

• The federal government has been considering a “back to the future” overhaul of capital gains tax, signalling a potential return to the pre-1999 method of taxing inflation-adjusted “real” gains rather than applying the current flat 50 per cent discount.
• The actual cost to boost Australia's storage facilities would be around $6 billion, so the $800 million was simply a contribution.
• The rest would have to be paid by the facilities themselves, which would likely pass that onto drivers at an estimated cost of 1 cent per litre.
• Recherches qui explosent : David Amiel aux Comptes publics : changement de casting, même scénario austéritaire, Interview. Sophie Binet (CGT) : « Il faut tout changer et avoir une vraie stratégie industrielle », « De nombreuses choses à changer », la CGT se mobilise, pour les droits des femmes, samedi 7 mars à Alençon, Ronan Lherbier (CGT 44) : "c'est bien par la mobilisation qu'on peut changer la donne !".