The case for a land value tax
Please support a 100% land value tax on the unimproved value of land, not including buildings or improvements to the site, only “location, location, location” value. We can use the revenues from a LVT to reduce taxes on earnings and output. Taxation is the price of a civilised society; civilised society and public services create land values; so let's fund public services out of 'service charges' on land values. The main aim is to make land owners pay for the value of the public services they receive instead of making businesses, workers and consumers pay for the cost of those public services through very arbitrary and damaging taxes and then making them pay for the value of public services, in rent/mortgage repayments. So the system is rigged, it is a massive ongoing transfer of wealth from the productive economy to landowners, and the transfers of wealth from the productive economy to simple landowners (the selling price of land) need to be reduced to £n...