Month: March 2017

Land reform — fully automated and at no cost to the public? Find out how at our PUBLIC MEETING on Friday 24th March at 1.30pm, Quaker Meeting House, Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2EX. RSVP. RSVP.

Our resident Emeritus Professor of Economics, Roger Sandilands explains the virtuous AGR cycle that would bring prosperity to Scotland: “Reduce taxes and rents will rise. Collect those rents as public revenue and, as Adam Smith

Damages caused by current taxes are called ‘deadweight losses’. Nobel economists claim £2 is lost to the economy for each £1 of tax raised in Scotland today. SLRG uses a conservative estimate of £1 of deadweight losses per £1

What is the net income of Scotland, the sum from which revenue could be raised to fund public services? HMRC has never bothered to find out. That’s because the socially-generated rents of land, public value currently flowing

Start capturing land values to fund public services please, Mrs Sturgeon. You can replace up to 10p of Income Tax with locally collected AGR. This measure would quickly add £billions to Scotland’s economy.  

Adam Smith tried to draw to our attention a source of revenue which, if collected, would not reduce the revenue and wealth of the people: “…no discouragement will thereby be given to any sort of industry.

We can understand that the SNP priority will always be independence. Ours is cancelling £36bn Annual Scottish deadweight losses. Here is the basis of our thesis to be explored at our public meeting in Edinburgh, 24

Economist, Fred Harrison on how government revenue policy perpetuates our social difficulties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgLqyhALIgw&feature=youtu.be