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
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We 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
Continue ReadingRadical Tax Reform: the answer to tax evasion, budget deficits and welfare cuts
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
Continue ReadingCalculating AGR/LVT charges when Council Tax and Income Tax are replaced
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
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