Clyde Cameron (feb 11, 1913 – mar 14, 2008)

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Former Labor MP

“It is better to pay a small amount of land tax (rent) on your block of land than to pay a large amount in income tax and indirect taxation.”

“The reintroduction of a Federal tax upon unimproved land for non-rural properties in excess of 100 thousand dollars unimproved land value, and a special tax upon any taxpayer owning more than his place of residence and one vacant block. As well as yielding several hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, this tax would have the even greater advantage of easing pressure on resources caused by the rapacity of land speculators. It would reduce land values by taxing vacant building allotments and would be much more equitable than seeking to reduce demand inflation by such measures as, say, indirect taxation upon consumer goods and household appliances. Rising land prices have a greater inroad into the incomes of the ordinary wage earner than any other single factor. It not only directly affects the wage earner who is seeking to build a new home, but it directly affects the price of homes already built… You will recall that when the Menzies Government abolished the Federal Land Tax, the Labor Opposition then stated, quite categorically, that a Labor Government would reintroduce the tax…”

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