Flufferfax screams at Bank West

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Will no one think of the specufestors! Flufferfax will:

Bankwest’s axing of negative gearing benefits for new – and some existing – investor housing loans is being used by Australia and New Zealand Banking Group and National Australia Bank as a marketing opportunity to attract disaffected borrowers looking for alternatives.

The bank, owned by Commonwealth Bank of Australia, confirmed on Monday that the generous tax breaks would not be allowed for calculating loan eligibility for new borrowers leading to a lower amount that a borrower can get.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.