Year: 2018

Not long now till SLRG’s Professor Roger Sandilands addresses Scot Gov economists and employees (19 October) on Henry George and Annual Ground Rent/Land Value Tax. It is the one subject we all need to get our

SLRG’s Professor Roger Sandilands answers the question of how we’d be invited to invest in productive enterprise once unproductive land speculation is cancelled with AGR/LVT. Share certificates pretty much as today?   Answer: Yes; why

Imagine a Scotland in which buying ‘property’ meant you didn’t pay for the site up front. Just for the building and for transferring the deed. Instead you’d pay the annual rental value of the site

Scot Gov, one of the 50 actions you promised in 2016 was to “place a new duty on public bodies to consider the impact their decisions could have on poverty and disadvantage.” Scot Gov, are

SLRG publication by Duncan Pickard in which he discusses the favourable economic and social outcomes of adopting a radically different state revenue structure: AGR/LVT. View or download the publication here: Radical Tax Reform.web

By SLRG’s Duncan Pickard   In the current tax regime land is permitted by society to be a private investment. Collecting AGR/LVT would partially or completely end this practice, which inflates land values far beyond

Whether you are a politician or a voter, do you know what the deadweight losses of tax are? If not, you cannot start to sort Scotland’s economic and social problems. That is because the damage

The operation of the UK government tax scam, by which capital gains from high value locations rapidly offset, then overtake, the entire lifetime tax liabilities of site (home) owners, is documented in Fred Harrison’s book,

A meaningful referendum would be one in which the British people were consulted on whether, after Brexit, they wish to be liberated from the taxes that impose £500bn+ worth of avoidable damage to the wealth

In this SLRG pamphlet the authors describe the post-Brexit era as the first realistic chance since 1945 for all of the political parties to unite behind the one financial reform that would forge a new