🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About Being Taxed For Having A Spare Bedroom?

Does being taxed for having a spare bedroom pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gem Nation today taxing the spare room, does
it pass the pub test.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's not so much just taxing the spare room, it's
offering incentives for people to sell their family homes and downsize.
We're finding that seventy five percent of homes are comprised
of a couple or one parent with or without dependents.
Twenty seven percent live on their own, and homes are
built for the standard to four to five person family. Really,
so this is a plan to in a way, find

(00:33):
ways and incentives to free up more housing for other
families to come into the market.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
You know, the government should stop mucking around with their
red tape and holding back on das and just let
things happen. Let developers do their bit build more houses
the olden days.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
But in the olden days, people our age weren't living
in our family homes with adult children, or weren't in
our family homes on their own.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Like for our parents, it was affordable sort of housing.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
That's true now, but we're working longer, so we need
to we need to have somewhere to live. We're not retiring.
There'd be tax incentives, as I said, like abolishing stamp duty.
Those sorts of things. How would you feel about this
taxing the spare bedroom? Does it pass the pub test?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I think it's ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
There should be no taxing your spare bedrooms. It does
look past the pub test. What it all means incentivized
antists to downside, but don't fendalize. People have got hard
all their lives to get what they've got now.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
Taxes, taxes, taxes and more taxes.

Speaker 6 (01:32):
Like, really, we pay land tax, we pay this, and
now they.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Want to taxes for a stare bedroom.

Speaker 6 (01:38):
I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
No, it doesn't. The government are losing the plot. Why
give incentive tax incentives for people to move out of homes,
use that money and build more homes. A tax incentive
will only create road which will waste more money.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
I don't have tashion a bank to give my kids
to put a deposit down. But what I have is
a big house and they can live here as long
as they need to. And I now have five adults
in my home. We're using up all out that space
and that's what I can offer them.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
And I'm not about to downplay quick. I'm still working,
and I'm in the area that I've been working in
for years. It's convenience to me, So why would I
want to sell them downside out there?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
They you know you've got what you've got. This is
ridiculous if they're bringing in more people than they can
a house. Stop immigration, so simple, stoping gracious about it.
There's just too people coming here for what we put off.
We we don't have the infrastructure. These government people meant
to work for us. What are they doing.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I agree with you, brother, I agree. I get a
train set room.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
You've got a train set room. You've got a sewing room.
You've got a walking around room, a gaming room, walking
around corner.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
A sauna, a sauna, you've got.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
A thinking room. It's the smallest room in the house.