Stronger case needed against negative gearing

Updated April 23 2018 - 11:08pm, first published April 26 2015 - 5:06pm

Following the recent issue of a Treasury taxation paper, there seems to be a campaign to disallow negative gearing, the practice whereby the annual losses an investor incurs on a rented property (because of the interest payable on the loan to make the investment) is an allowable deduction from other income for tax purposes.

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