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Where to for stamp duty reform now?

Published: June 26, 2022, 10 p.m.

\u201cStamp duty is the worst tax that any government can have,\u201d says Dominic Perrottet, recently quoted in the ABC. \n\nBut after talking up stamp duty reform for the past two years, the then NSW Treasurer now Premier Dominic Perrottet\u2019s grand plans ended less with a bang and more with a whimper. \n\nThe government will allow first home buyers to opt to pay land tax rather than stamp duty. But it falls well short of the kind of reform many were hoping for.\n\nIn this podcast, Kat Clay and Brendan Coates discuss why stamp duty is such a bad tax and why a land tax would be better, why the NSW government\u2019s efforts to replace one with the other fell short, and what other states should learn from the experience.\n\nDonate to Grattan: https://grattan.edu.au/donate