Land taxes are currently structured in such a way that the State Government gets more money if land prices are high. This is an incentive cycle that needs to be broken.

Stamp Duty

Stamp duty

Stamp Duty

Stamp Duty is a state government tax that is charged every time you buy a property. You can read more about it in Land Taxes. is charged as a percentage of the price of the property sold, so the more the property costs, the more money the state government gets.

Stamp duty

Stamp Duty

Stamp Duty is a state government tax that is charged every time you buy a property. You can read more about it in Land Taxes. should be replaced with a flat tax of maybe $300.

Infrastructure services can be divided into grid-owning infrastructure services

Grid-owning infrastructure services

Grid-owning infrastructure services are services that require the ownership of a grid of land that interlocks across the area. This includes roads, railways, electricity, telephone, water, sewers, and the like, but not services that depend on these (such as garbage collection depending on roads). (such as electricity, water, and railways), and non-grid-owning infrastructure services

Grid-owning infrastructure services

Grid-owning infrastructure services are services that require the ownership of a grid of land that interlocks across the area. This includes roads, railways, electricity, telephone, water, sewers, and the like, but not services that depend on these (such as garbage collection depending on roads). (such as garbage collection, buses, and the like). This article is concerned solely with the grid-owning variety of services.

Grid-owning infrastructure services

Grid-owning infrastructure services

Grid-owning infrastructure services are services that require the ownership of a grid of land that interlocks across the area. This includes roads, railways, electricity, telephone, water, sewers, and the like, but not services that depend on these (such as garbage collection depending on roads). are provided in two ways:

• Privately (in Victoria, this includes electricity, telecommunications, and railways)
  
• Publicly (in Victoria, this includes roads, water, and sewerage)

Infrastructure Taxes

Hopefully everyone can see how, as land supply

Land supply

Land supply is a term that indicates how many blocks of land are available. Allowing subdivision (such as by rezoning from rural to residential) increases the land supply, as does limiting the amount of land that someone can buy. You can read more about it in Land Supply and Demand. is restricted (especially relative to demand), the price of land will go up. Thus we need to discuss factors which alter the supply and demand of land.

Land Supply

Zoning

The prime factor affecting land supply

Land supply

Land supply is a term that indicates how many blocks of land are available. Allowing subdivision (such as by rezoning from rural to residential) increases the land supply, as does limiting the amount of land that someone can buy. You can read more about it in Land Supply and Demand. is its zoning. When land is released

Land release

Land release is a euphemism for the process whereby the government rezones land from a lower density zoning (such as rural) to a higher-density zoning (such as suburban). If the government hadn't restricted the land, it wouldn't need "releasing". You can read more about this in Land Supply and Demand. by the government, it is rezoned for a more densely-populated usage. This generally means that rural land of various types is rezoned as various types of residential, usually suburban, land.