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land value tax Articles

The time is ripe for property tax reform

There is no ‘silver bullet’ to solve the housing crisis, but the land value tax comes pretty close, finds David Adler More than any Conservative government in modern history, Theresa May’s is serious about housing. It is May’s 'personal mission' to fix the ‘broken...

An open goal for Labour on housing

The government's housing white paper is evolutionary, not revolutionary – and it leaves much ground for Labour to occupy, argues Mark Walker In as much fanfare as the Brexit news cycle will allow the government launched its housing white paper last week – 'Fixing our...

This land is our land

A land value tax could widen asset ownership without hitting middle-income aspirations, argues David Green Child trust funds, intended to widen asset ownership radically, were an early casualty of the coalition. A system of direct redistribution based on land could be...

Taxing land

During the leadership election Andy Burnham advocated a tax on land value to help cut the deficit without hitting the hard working majority. This is a welcome development, both of policy and of thinking; but going further, and linking such a tax directly to mass redistribution, could change social democracy for good.