Writing in the Guardian, noted pro LVT columnist Phillip Inman has slammed the property industry for sitting on land ready for development, and pointed out that LVT would prevent this behaviour. See his Guardian article .
Calling all with an interest in major reform of Britain's property taxes. The Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has tabled a Private Members Bill.... "to require the Secretary of State to commission a programme of research into the merits of replacing the Council Tax and Non-domestic rates in England with an annual levy on the unimproved value of all land, including transitional arrangements"
Interesting article by Michael Hudson, but probably of more interest to those with a general interest in economics, rather than just land tax.
In just a few days' time Liberal Democrats will be invited to decide whether to endorse their Party's unswerving support for George Osborne's
The chart below is the marginal tax rates for Income Tax and Employers and Employees National Insurance combined. This gives the full cost of taxes on labour, including the often forgotten Employers National insurance. When you take into account the perfectly legal ways that income taxes can be avoided with various tax reliefs like pensions etc the income based taxes are possibly flat or even regressive, rather than progressive.
This American video by the www.howtoendpoverty.info website, explains land monoploy. Their slogan is "To liberate production from taxation, the Earth from monopoly, and humanity from poverty."