新州为提高置业能力减房产发展商税费$25,000元

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新州为提高置业能力减房产发展商税费$25,000元






10月16日消息   根据新州政府提高置业负担能力的改革，新发放土地的发展商附加税将减$25,000元。

新州州长伊曼(Morris Iemma)表示，减低地产发展及建屋贡献税将有助年青家庭购买新屋。减税将最先应用于西悉尼, 稍后将适用于全州新发放的土地。伊曼有信心此项优惠会从发展商惠及房屋购买者。

新州财长Michael Costa说，减税意味着政府为基建将要负责更多款项。今后25年西悉尼发展区有望减税20亿元。





Developers freed from paying levies



October 13, 2007   Sydney Morning Herald


DEVELOPERS of land on Sydney's outskirts will no longer have to contribute towards the cost of hospitals, parks, schools and police stations after the NSW Government bowed to industry pressure to reduce taxes for building in unestablished suburbs.

The Premier, Morris Iemma, yesterday announced the cost of building a new house in the growth areas of Sydney's north-west and south-west would be cut by about $25,000 after both council and state levies are cut.

"It's part of what we are doing to get young families into their first home," Mr Iemmasaid.

But there was no guarantee, except for the impact of "market forces", that the property industry would pass on the savings to new home-buyers.

Local government in so-called greenfield, or undeveloped, areas would be required by the State Government to spend infrastructure levies within seven years, rather than saving the money for when parks and libraries were needed down the track. But the peak council association questioned the ability of the Government to pay for new amenities without the taxes, accusing it of "pandering to developers".

"Unless the Government guarantees it will pick up the funding shortfall, and puts in place strict guidelines requiring developers to pass on savings, we'll be faced with a situation where communities wait 20 or 30 years for basic infrastructure," said the president of the Local Government Association, Genia McCaffery.

The Treasurer, Michael Costa, said the decision was expected to cost $2 billion in the medium term but would not affect the state's AAA credit rating.

Developers had complained bitterly over the gradual rise of government charges on developers who built homes in the government's growth areas, where zoning has been fast-tracked by the Government's Growth Centres Commission.

Developers have blamed the levies for the stagnation of markets on Sydney's fringe. The Government has maintained that interest rates were more to blame for the high cost of real estate.

The Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, said the changes were part of a "new philosophy" about what the council and the government could ask developers to help pay for. Instead of levying for future population growth, they would only be levied to develop the land in its current state.

The changes would eventually apply across the board, prompting the Property Council of Australia to say it was unclear if the new regime would result in extending levies in established urban areas.

"It's extremely unclear what the Government wants to do in that area," said the council's NSW executive director, Ken Morrison.

A spokesman for Mr Costa said the new approach was designed to avoid making developers "pay for everything". The criteria was whether the new amenity was enjoyed only by residents of a new development as opposed to the general population.

Councils would gradually be banned from charging developers for the construction of libraries, parks and sports facilities. The Government also said it would take over the management of more than $750 million in unspent developers' levies in council coffers.


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