{"id":308,"date":"2017-03-09T05:09:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T05:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/?page_id=308"},"modified":"2021-05-08T22:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T22:46:55","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About SLRG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/slrg.logo_.web_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/slrg.logo_.web_-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/slrg.logo_.web_-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/slrg.logo_.web_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/slrg.logo_.web_.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Land Revenue Group was formed in 2014 to promote <a href=\"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/what-is-agr\/\">Annual Ground Rent<\/a>\u00a0(AKA\u00a0Land Value Tax) as a highly desirable <em>replacement<\/em>\u00a0source of government revenue. We aim to show how Scotland could move away from destructive taxation on legitimate economic activity, and look to socially-created land values as an alternative source of public revenue that would allow prosperity to both grow and be shared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/virtuous-cycle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-543 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/virtuous-cycle-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/virtuous-cycle-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/virtuous-cycle-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/virtuous-cycle-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/virtuous-cycle-825x583.jpg 825w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/virtuous-cycle.jpg 1754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Scotland has fought hard to achieve a degree of independence over tax policy. Recently devolved powers over income tax rates and bands, coupled with existing powers over local taxation, allow Holyrood to re-structure its tax system to make it much fairer and more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Adopting Annual Ground Rent and cancelling deadweight taxes such as Income Taxes, VAT would result in a level of social justice and enhanced economic prosperity that Scotland hasn\u2019t been able to achieve under Westminster control. It would provide the key link between land reform and fiscal reform.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Land Revenue Group has\u00a0a core steering group and a more general mailing list. We hold public events periodically. If you would like to help in any way, or simply be added to our list of contacts, please email us on <a href=\"mailto:info@slrg.scot\">info@slrg.scot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Land Revenue Group was formed in 2014 to promote Annual Ground Rent\u00a0(AKA\u00a0Land Value Tax) as a highly desirable replacement\u00a0source of government revenue. We aim to show how Scotland could move away from destructive taxation on legitimate economic activity, and look to socially-created land values as an alternative source of public revenue that would [&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-308","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308","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=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}