Tax the land
One radical idea to solve America’s housing crisis. By Jerusalem Demsas @JerusalemDemsas Mar 4, 2022, 10:10am EST on Vox A six-word phrase keeps popping up on my Twitter feed: “Land value tax would solve this.” In...
Category: LVT in the News
Saudi Arabia to spend $7m white land tax revenue on Riyadh homes
Ministry of Housing says Idle Land Tax returns to be used for $6.6-million housing project near King Khalid Int’l Airport Millions of dollars generated by Saudi Arabia’s white-land tax will be used to fund infrastructure for...
Andy Burnham’s land taxes plan to pay for Northern Powerhouse Rail should be explored, says Patrick McLoughlin
New Transport for the North chair Patrick McLoughlin says the idea of using Hong Kong-style land taxes to fund the expansion of the Northern Powerhouse Rail route merits serious consideration – but admits some...
Tax Regimes that Don’t Invite Corruption
H. William Batt, Ph.D., Board of DirectorsRobert Schalkenbach Foundation, New YorkInternational Union for Land Value Taxation, LondonInternational Journal of Transdisciplinary Research The cost of compliance, evasion, and corruption in the collection of taxes is...
We face a land crisis, not a housing crisis
By Dr. Justin Robins, Vice Chair Labour Land Campaign, Letter to the Editor in The Guardian Sam Bowman (The big idea: could fixing housing fix everything else, too?, 17 January) is quite right in...
National Bank, Canada Report – Land Value Capture: could it finance public transit?
National Bank of Canada is pleased to team up with internationally renowned public transit expert Dr. George Hazel and his team of international experts to make public this report on land value capture for...