Just a reminder of the cost to the rest of us of the out-of-control negative gearing of investment properties.
The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 May 2016:
The re-analysis of the 2013-14 tax data, the latest available, shows that each negative gearer claimed an average loss of $8722 per year. Seven out of 10 had income before deductions in the top or second-top tax bracket. The average amount of tax saved by each of the 1.2 million negative gearers was $2900 per year.
Spread over the remaining 11.7 million taxpayers, the average cost was $310 each. The total, $3.646 billion, is about as much as the government spent on assistance to jobseekers and vocational training, and twice what it spent on assistance to indigenous Australians.
Haven't heard any negative gearer bragging about this around the barbeque lately.
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