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Vital Signs: Stamp duty is an economic drag. Here's how to move to a better system

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
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For all the things we don’t know about COVID-19 one thing is certain: our economic recovery will depend on boosting productivity. Everyone from the Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe to Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese seem to agree on this.

The question, of course, is how to do it.

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