No need for a "death" tax . No need to scrap negative gearing [ both this and the franking credits problems are mostly taken care of by the changes below.] Both of these proposals have lots of unintended consequences .
Scap the discretionary part of discretionary trusts Tax retirement income properly , [I'm looking at YOU boomer] Back to Keating CGT Make the cgt tax free family home , a tax deferral , ie cgt payable after death [ok , ok , a sort of a death tax] There are a few details related to rollovers and dependents for the family home cgt , but I wont go into them until I am yelled at a bit.
Now , a regime like that , I think, apart from raising enough cash to run our society , will push our economy towards being more productive by ending the bias in our system towards passive asset speculation .
Just need a few less Boomer voters and all the above may be possible.
