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	<title>Financial Standard Comments - Land tax, not stamp duty: Report</title>
	<description>A draft report into reforming GST and reducing inefficient taxes has reignited calls for the scrapping of stamp duty when buying or selling a home, to be replaced by a broad-based land tax.</description>
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		<title>Comment by Beth Dumughn (DHS)</title>
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<p><p>Would this not discourage people from being home owners, bearing in mind that they already pay land rates to councils? If equity is the goal, I do not see how this changes the equitable tax situation at all, as it is still resting on the home owners, not the non-homeowners, who also utilize all the facilities mentioned above yet do not contribute. Perhaps a totally new type of equitable tax needs to be applied or a review of GST and it&#39;s distribution</p></p><p><a href="">Reply to article</a></p><p>For original story, <a href="">Click Here.</a></p>
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		<dc:creator>Beth Dumughn (DHS)</dc:creator>
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