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South Australia was the first Australian state to introduce a land tax, based on the unimproved capital value of land, in 1884. [6] [7] In 1910, George Allen (first secretary to the Treasury) founded the Land Tax Office to service land taxes at the federal level as a form of wealth tax and as a means to break up large tracts of underutilised land.
A land value tax is a progressive tax, in that the tax burden falls on land owners, because land ownership is correlated with wealth and income. [3] [4] The land value tax has been referred to as "the perfect tax" and the economic efficiency of a land value tax has been accepted since the eighteenth century.
The Australian Property Institute (API) is a professional industry body representing residential, commercial and plant and machinery valuers, analysts, fund managers and property lawyers. The API was originally formed in 1927 as the Commonwealth Institute of Valuers. [ 1 ]
The 319 counties of Queensland in 1901. Lands administrative divisions of Queensland refers to the divisions of Queensland used for the registration of land titles. There are 322 counties, and 5,319 parishes within the state. [1] [2] They are part of the Lands administrative divisions of Australia. Queensland had been divided into 109 counties ...
Kleberg was offered a lease by the Queensland Government on 21,501 hectares (53,130 acres) of land, which at the time was largely covered in lowland tropical rainforest. It is sited on the traditional lands of the Dyirbal people. The land was made available to Kleberg by the government for A$5 per acre for forest and A$2 per acre for open field ...
There are 21 Queensland Government departments, each responsible for delivering a portfolio of government legislation and policy. [1] Each portfolio area is led by a minister who is a senior member of the governing party in the state Legislative Assembly .
The flag of Queensland. Queensland (locally / ˈ k w iː n z l æ n d / KWEENZ-land, commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
The land was approved by the Land Board (renamed Court). The Land Board reported to the Minister on the fair value of the land to the owner, demand for land in the neighborhood, suitability of the land, permanency of water, probability of selection and absence of sufficient crown land in the area. [7]