{"id":1125,"date":"2018-09-11T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T10:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/?page_id=1125"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:11:24","slug":"links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/links\/","title":{"rendered":"LINKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links to sites promoting the virtues and understanding of the Rent-as-Revenue policy option.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Land Value Taxation Campaign\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landvaluetax.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.landvaluetax.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The LVT Campaign is a single-issue non-party\/all-party organisation based in the UK which proposes that the rental value of land should be collected and used as the principal source of public revenue, as a replacement for present taxes on wages, profits, goods and services.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Labour Land Campaign<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourland.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.labourland.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Labour Land Campaign is a voluntary group working for land reform within the Labour Movement, advocating a more equitable distribution of the land values that are created by the whole community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Land Value Tax for Scotland \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.andywightman.com\/docs\/LVTREPORT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.andywightman.com\/docs\/LVTREPORT.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This 2009 report was commissioned by the Scottish Green Party MSPs from Scotland&#8217;s leading land reform expert Andy Wightman. Its purpose was to develop the case for LVT and to propose a costed, detailed policy on LVT.\u00a0 It compared LVT with the Council Tax at a time when the Scottish Government only had powers over local government taxation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AGR for Wales? <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-politics-45367710\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-politics-45367710\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Adam Price, Plaid Cymru leadership contender, proposes land value taxation while scrapping council tax, business rates and slashing income tax rates &#8211; a proposal very similar to that in our own &#8220;Scotland&#8217;s Path to Prosperity&#8221;. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links to sites promoting the virtues and understanding of the Rent-as-Revenue policy option. Land Value Taxation Campaign\u00a0 https:\/\/www.landvaluetax.org\/ The LVT Campaign is a single-issue non-party\/all-party organisation based in the UK which proposes that the rental value of land should be collected and used as the principal source of public revenue, as a replacement for present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1125","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1125\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}