Part of the ward I am going to be contesting in May is in the ward I represented up till 2002. This part of the ward is covered by a Parish Council (a rare...
Planning gain supplement ‘fair and efficient’ land tax but developers have their doubts 02 February 2006 - ...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 3, 2006 9:08 am
A Brilliant article in today's Morning Star by my good friend Jerry Jones. The Morning Star is the former Communist workers' newspaper which is well read by UK...
Well, most of us will join the developers in this rejection (not their arguments) AND want to gain their support for the much better LVT. Do you in the UK have...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 5, 2006 4:10 pm
<<_0203153735_001.pdf>> Dave Dave Wetzel; Vice-Chair; Transport for London. Windsor House. 42-50 Victoria Street. London. SW1H 0TL. UK Tel: 020 7126 4200 Intl...
Dear All, I would hate to think that all this empirical support for land value taxation would go to waste. It is appended below (and a summary is available on...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 5, 2006 4:17 pm
The Planning Gain Supplement is NAFF!! Dave Vice-Chair, TfL 020 7126 4200 ... From: LandCafe@yahoogroups.com [mailto:LandCafe@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
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Rana Roy
rana.roy@...
Feb 6, 2006 8:28 am
Dave, I am sure that your presentation was alluring but I think you mean to say that success eluded you. On a more serious note, I thought your presentation...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 6, 2006 8:28 am
I have circulated to you my PowerPoint demonstration that I shall be giving to The Treasury tomorrow. (I'm hoping to get it in "Word" format for those who...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 6, 2006 8:29 am
Your Planning Officer is right - if the development takes place, Julian. So who takes the hit? THE landowner. In which case they may refuse to develop and this...
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Tony Vickers
tonyvickers@...
Feb 6, 2006 9:14 pm
I attended a dinner with the Economic Research Council last week, at which Kate Barker was the speaker. She kept saying "I presume this is off the record" but...
It strikes me that we need a very short, compelling brochure showing why land value tax is a better alternative than the planning gain supplement. Then we need...
Colleagues: I strongly support this motion. And moreover to see if we can use this as an opportunity to open up our traditional limited Listserve approach to...
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Tony Vickers
tonyvickers@...
Feb 7, 2006 8:54 pm
I've completed the response to the PGS consultation, all bar a page for Bibliography and adding an Appendix on Research, which is being approved by PLRG next...
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Tony Vickers
tonyvickers@...
Feb 7, 2006 8:54 pm
I was there and thought Dave's presentation was 'spot on'. It was disappointing that David Brooks of Fabian Society summed up by implying that we are asking...
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Tony Vickers
tonyvickers@...
Feb 9, 2006 9:48 am
Jacobs wrote the 2000 Fabian Report of their Tax Commission, which was quite positive about LVT, called it a good environment tax (in a whole chapter dedicated...
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Tony Vickers
tonyvickers@...
Feb 9, 2006 9:48 am
I agree. In the ALTER response to the PGS consultation the document will be an Appendix. The covering letter will explain that it began life with LLC but...
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Tony Vickers
tonyvickers@...
Feb 9, 2006 9:50 am
I've amended the "LVT Research manifesto" as Dave suggested. Replace yesterday's version. Tony Vickers...
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Ole Lefmann
olefmann@...
Feb 9, 2006 9:51 am
Below message arrived today from Jaouahdou Kouraich, Un-Ngls, Geneva. Jaouahdou Kouraich publishes by e-mail the bi-monthly newsletter 'Civil Society...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 9, 2006 9:52 am
What are you trying to say Tony? :- "the market value of land (as distinct from its total capital value) would tend to decline," I've always understood the...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 9, 2006 11:33 am
Nb The Treasury's/Barker figure for "vacant brownfield land" should not be compared with "vacancy figures". The latter will be much larger as it includes...
[http://www./andcafe.org] Editor's note: This "Proposal For the Introduction of the Taxation of Land Values" has been submitted for comment and improvement by...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 13, 2006 11:34 am
Paul and his advisers are wrong. A purchaser or future tenant looks at total occupation costs before completing a deal. For 2 identical properties on sites of...
Ed Dodson responding... Dave Wetzel wrote: .......and commercial properties Ed? Ed here: The rule I notice most often is: "Fools rush in where wise men fear to...
Ed Dodson responding... Dave Wetzel wrote: Paul and his advisers are wrong. A purchaser or future tenant looks at total occupation costs before completing a...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 14, 2006 8:36 am
David, 1. "I "own" 1/2 acre for which I paid a substantial sum - and like other pieces of land I've "owned" (borrowed always seems a more appropriate word to...
LVT News Digest - 14 February 2006 AS downtown thrives, some buildings left behind Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA ... Pierce is a big fan of land value...
Ed Dodson responding... Dave Wetzel wrote: .......and commercial properties Ed? Ed here: Another observation worth mentioning is that when someone acquires...
Ed Dodson responding... Dave Wetzel wrote: But will increased taxes on buildings increase, decrease or leave the same the price of land under the building? Ed...
