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• Posted Taxes and Property: an insight into RICS' study to LandValueScape
  Property Taxation - Time for Reform 03.02.2011.ppt - slides of a talk by Jeremy Edge to PLRG on 3rd Feb 2011. Since the RICS launched their major study last summer, it is clear that the scope of what they are likely...
• Posted Irish election and property taxes to LandValueScape
  PLRG's Chairman, Dave Wetzel, has been advising certain parties across the Irish Sea about property tax. Currently there is no form of 'rating' (local property tax) in Eire, although in Northern Ireland the old rating system was never abolished when...
• Posted Land Tax policy in Hong Kong: book widely read in China to LandValueScape
  This just came to the attention of Landvaluescape. It is taken from an article in the South China Morning Post last July. Coming from someone who worked inside Hong Kong's property cartel, it confirms what many told me was...
• Posted Academic post 'up north' may suit PLRG member to LandValueScape
  We have been asked by Dr Seraphim Alvanides to advertise this lecturer post at Northumbria University, likely to be attractive to anyone interested in land value capture theory and practice. Note closing date for applications is 14th February....
• Posted Scottish Land Tax a step closer to LandValueScape
  The Scotland Bill, which has its second reading today, contains a powerful increase in freedom for Scotland to introduce entirely new taxes. Although much of the debate has centred on the "Scottish [income tax] rate resolution", merely devolving greater control over...
• Posted Parliament looks at fundamentals of Land Value Taxation to LandValueScape
  This week the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons began hearing evidence on the Fundamentals of Tax Policy. Members of the Mirrlees Review team of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, which recommended LVT in a report late last...
• Posted Tax Shifting: doing it in Britain 2011 to LandValueScape
  Transitional Issues.doc is a draft paper, prepared by PLRG Hon Sec Dr Tony Vickers for the Coalition for Economic Justice, drawing on his work over 10 years researching the barriers to implementation of Land Value Taxation (LVT) in Britain. It is...
• Posted Edge to open PLRG 2011 Programme to LandValueScape
  Jeremy Edge, principal of Edge Planning & Development, will be the first speaker of 2011 - on Thursday 3rd February at 6pm - for PLRG's series of stimulating evening lectures on aspects of land value capture. As usual, the talk...
• Posted PLRG hears from Future-planner of past housing funding chaos to LandValueScape
  PLRG was given a fascinating insight into the black hole of past UK housing policy by Stephen Hill, Director of Future Planners, at its last meeting on 24th November.  Hill summed up the reason at the start of his talk:...
• Posted Mirrlees calls for LVT to LandValueScape
  Among the "radical changes" recommended by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in its Review of the Tax System by Nobel Laureate Sir James Mirrlees is Land Value Taxation. (see Chapter 16 of the Interim Report for details). The full...
• Posted Newcastle could put PLRG on the map to LandValueScape
  A project to help devise a methodology for calculating and demonstrating the tax yield for infrastructure projects from Tax Increment Financing (TIF) could become the first research originating within the Professional Land Reform Group (PLRG). Dr Seraphim Alvanides of Northumbria...
• Posted PLRG speaker gives keynote on Land at Waterfront to LandValueScape
  Stephen Hill, who gives the next PLRG talk on Wed 24th November, was opening keynote speaker at a Waterfront Conference on The Future for Housing Delivery yesterday (17th November). He clearly pointed to Land Value Taxation as the answer to...
• Posted Is Wadsworth too simple for Wandsworth?! to LandValueScape
  Simplifying the tax system.ppt.pdf has been offered to PLRG by Mark Wadsworth, the author of a Bow Group (Conservative centre-right think-tank) contribution to the present Government's tax policy thinking - which wasn't accepted in 2005. But the global economy is very different...
• Posted Scottish Greens, English Lib Dems & Tory councillor Call for Land Tax to LandValueScape
  Scotland's Green Party has commissioned a report by land reformer Andy Wightman which sets out a path towards Land Value Taxation. This comes days after a Liberal Democrat conference in Oxford, of the South Central English Region, called unanimously for Lib Dem Ministers...
• Posted UN SWOTs on Land Value Capture to LandValueScape
  Did you know that the UN supports Land Value Taxation? In 2006, UN HABITAT awarded a contract to the US-based Earth Rights Institute to develop one of several Global Land Tools for the benefit of governments in the majority/developing world:...
• Posted FuturePlanner speaks to PLRG on 24th Nov to LandValueScape
  Stephen Hill, Director of C2O futureplanners and a member of RICS' Planning & Development Professional Group Board, has kindly agreed to be the next speaker in the series of talks for the Professional Land Reform Group (PLRG). Hill will give...
• Posted RICS Workshop no.2 on Tax & Property in UK to LandValueScape
  Volterra note 22 Oct10.doc is a brief record by PLRG Hon Sec Dr Tony Vickers of a workshop he attended at the invitation of RICS to discuss how various taxes affect those who own, occupy and invest in land and property....
• Posted The coming battle over land and property to LandValueScape
  This is the title of an article in this week's New Statesman by its editor Jason Cowley. It gives a good overview of the historical background to the great "unquestioned" issue of democracy and market capitalism. It represents only the...
• Posted China Rising: will the property bubble there burst too? to LandValueScape
  The Professional Land Reform Group (PLRG) held its first evening meeting at the new venue of London South Bank University (LSBU) on 16 September. Speaker Dave Wetzel, an independent transport consultant and PLRG Chair, gave a talk China needs LVT,...
• Posted Constructive Taxation: land value capture as a regeneration tool to LandValueScape
  Brief for UK Government.doc This paper was prepared at the request of a member of the Coalition Government. It is not known how - if at all - it will be used. However it is a matter of public record...
• Posted Lib Dems call for research on wealth taxes to LandValueScape
  At their Party Conference last month, Liberal Democrats overwhelmingly backed a motion aimed at ensuring that the Coalition Government's austerity measures protect the most vulnerable and do not allow the wealth and inequality gap to widen. A key part of...
• Posted CentreForum asks Legrain to write on Land Tax to LandValueScape
  The think-tank CentreForum plans to commission a book by one of the many independent commentators on political economy to have recently written favourably about a land value tax: Philippe Legrain. The book will cover the theory, history, overseas experience and...
• Posted RICS reviews property taxes to LandValueScape
  RICS, the leading property professionals' organisation, in July 2010 commissioned an independent review of how taxation impacts on the land and property sectors in the UK, throughout the 'property lifecycle' (i.e. from vacant site through useful occupancy to demolition). Volterra, a...
• Posted Newcastle offers to be Smart Tax study site to LandValueScape
  Ten years ago, as New Labour was mid-term in its first Parliament, Liverpool voted to ask Government to be allowed to pilot Land Value Taxation. Now it could be Newcastle that undertakes a follow-up, under a centre-right Coalition Government. The...
• Posted Research Opportunities in LVT for UK? to LandValueScape
  As a reporter in the Mail discovered last Saturday, one of the Coalition parties (no prizes for guessing which one!) will be debating Land Value Taxation at its Conference, next week in Liverpool. The call comes as part of a...
• Posted China Needs LVT - first PLRG talk at LSBU 16 Sep 6pm to LandValueScape
  The Professional Land Reform Group (PLRG) is pleased to announce that London South Bank University has offered to host its bi-monthly meetings, starting with a talk by PLRG Chairman Dave Wetzel entitled China needs LVT next Thursday 6pm. The venue...
• Posted GEI Landvaluescape Paper to LandValueScape
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• Posted Green Economics Conference Report to LandValueScape
  Dr Tony Vickers attended the Green Economics Institute's annual conference at Mansfiled College Oxford on 30th July, to present a paper jointly written by his two PhD supervisors and himself which drew heavily on his dissertation. This was an opportunity...
• Posted Introducing Landvaluescape and the PLRG to LandValueScape
  Is the word "landvaluescape" familiar to you? If so, it will almost certainly be for one of two reasons: (1) you have come across Tony Vickers in recent years, whose research website this is; (2) you have been interested in Land Value Taxation...
• Posted Land and Tax reform in China - free talk 16th September to LandValueScape
  The next meeting of PLRG, on Thursday 16th September (6pm) at London South Bank University, will hear from its Chairman Dave Wetzel about Land Value Taxation in China. Dave has been invited several times to China to lecture in recent years...