James Thompson

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987 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Aug

James Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Money Café with Alan Kohler · There's No Place Like Home · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

And part of it is, as you said, that having the ready cash to pay the wealth tax isn't easy. matched

Inheritance taxes, you know, they don't raise that much money. matched

Guess what he said the best form of wealth tax might be? matched

What? matched

Capital gains tax. matched

Because you know the value of the asset, it's just been sold, and the person has the ready money to go. matched

Yeah, of course. matched

Yeah, so I thought that was a very interesting, and I said, oh, funny you should say that. matched

Paul, maybe Australia's ahead of the pack in this area. matched

Yeah. matched

I mean, yes, in theory. matched

There's lots of other factors, of course, like what's happening to the state of demand more generally. matched

You know, if the population's growing, there's probably still going to be demand for that sort of property. matched

Perhaps that outweighs the impact of the negative gearing change. matched

You know, does... matched

Do first home buyers who couldn't have had a look at Nathan's apartment suddenly get a look in and that helps support the price? matched

There's other things to think about. matched

The interesting part of that question for me, Alan, is... matched

Nathan says that in suburbs like his, there are no buildings allowed above three stories. matched

That three-story bit interests me because the Productivity Commission came out with a set of recommendations around planning for housing and how that could be improved or changed to get supply going. matched

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