SLRG’s Professor Roger Sandilands’ presentation on AGR/LVT to Scottish Government employees on 19 October went well. Here is Professor Sandilands’s 29-slide Powerpoint presentation. Edinburgh powerpoint presentation (r), Oct 2018 70 Scot Gov economists and other employees
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The Harrison Model
Are people killed being by misguided tax policies in 21st century Britain? Explaining premature deaths by zone has been the subject of a lifetime of study by economist Fred Harrison www.sharetherents.org. For example, if you
Continue ReadingThe People’s Budget No. 1
The first of a new regular series of AGR commentaries from economist Fred Harrison of the Land Research Trust, designed by SLRG’s Ian Kirkwood, in which the interests of the peoples of the British Isles
Continue ReadingWe need more enterprise and innovation; not less
Eaxctly how do its proponents think stacking more tax on enterprise and innovation would ease any of the manifold UK economic or social crises? Of course it wouldn’t: what is required is more enterprise and innovation; not
Continue ReadingNorth-South Divide can be healed with AGR/LVT
Q. How would the North-South Divide be healed with Annual Ground Rent/Land Value Tax? A. By collecting and distributing the returns (growing site values – biggest at the economic centre) on taxes invested in amenities
Continue ReadingBest chance since 1945 for a cross-party new start for the UK
In Brussels Blitz or £500bn Dividend Fred Harrison and Ian Kirkwood discuss how post-Brexit Britain could flourish as never before. For 300 years the four nations of the United Kingdom laboured under a tax regime
Continue ReadingSLRG talk to Scot Gov employees
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
Continue ReadingInvesting after AGR cancels the returns from sites
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
Continue ReadingDon’t pay for sites up front
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
Continue ReadingIs the Scottish Government a public body?
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
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