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Negative Gearing

Where Negative Gearing sits in the flow of extraction.

NEGATIVE GEARING · ESTIMATED FLOW OFFSHORE
≈A$6bn/yr
to property investors · ~A$6bn/yr to those who already own (The Australia Institute)
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ENTITY / MECHANISMMECHANISM · TAXSTATUS · EntrenchedACROSS · 1 TOPIC

A tax concession costing taxpayers around A$6bn a year, flowing disproportionately to those who already own: one of the housing rort's load-bearing beams.

Estimated flow offshore, each year
≈A$6bn/yr
Flowing to property investors. ~A$6bn/yr to those who already own (The Australia Institute).
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Investigations citing it
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Topics it recurs across
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Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Media OwnershipA$21.8Bin revenue forgone annually through negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount. The richest 1 per cent of Australians receive 59 per cent …2 investigations →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑03‑31Auto-assembled

Nobody wrote this page. It assembled itself from every investigation that names Negative Gearing, and it deepens automatically each time The Rort publishes another. The more the archive grows, the sharper this dossier gets, and the lobbyist, the donation and the revolving-door minister who recur across all of it become impossible to miss.

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