This is a very good article

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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    6 days ago

    Why ? People are doing it to avoid tax, dumping huge numbers of industrialial properties, houses or farms into their SMSF. Once again to AVOID tax, so fuck 'em. All of that penalises young people who then have a higher tax burden now.

    Once agin this is a extra tax on amounts OVER $3 Million. Currently something like $500k-$1Mil is about the amount recommended for people to have a comfortable retirement.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-29/leading-tax-expert-superannuation-first-step-to-broader-reform/105347654

    They want to pass that on to people in the next generation and they’re not going to pay any tax on it because the value is never realised, the gain is never realised."

    I supoort the Greens $2Million limit and indexed

    • ikt@aussie.zone
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      If you want to tax capital gains over $3 million then do it, but taxing unrealised capital gains is taxing on gains that haven’t materialised, hence they are “unrealised” and I think that’s stupid, whether it be for $10 or $10 million