2019

Scots should place their hope in fiscal reform

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019Uncategorized

Rather than place our hope in the EU or the UK, Scotland should choose a future in which the socially produced surplus is shared with its producers – and demonstrate to the world what can

Our economists say the figures used to justify subsidising Scottish agriculture are “worthless”

January 21, 2019April 8, 2020Uncategorized

I retired from a secure, well-paid job as a lecturer at the University of Leeds and began farming full-time. After 26 years of farming in Fife I am supposed to pretend that our farm business

AGR includes natural resource rents such as those deposited in Norway’s $1tn oil fund

January 8, 2019January 8, 2019Uncategorized

When considering AGR, do bear in mind that the $1tn Norweigian Oil Fund is composed of AGR in the form of oil rents. Just one strand of Annual Ground Rent, the equivalent of which has

Land Tax best for farmers – and everyone else too

January 6, 2019January 7, 2019Uncategorized

In his letter published in this week’s Scottish Farmer, Fife farmer and economist, Duncan Pickard, highlights misconceptions in Reading University’s report to the Scottish Land Commission on Land Value Tax, and explains why land rent

People’s Budget No. 3 Insanity at HM Treasury

January 2, 2019January 2, 2019Uncategorized

Nick Macpherson (now Lord Macpherson) came out as a proponent of the land tax (AGR/LVT) at a Resolution Foundation conference in London in October 2018. But his advocacy of the policy over three decades at