Dear Fellow Georgists: If you have an hour or two to spare, please critically comment on the draft for v.5 of our 32-page essay "Site Revenue, Key to Economic...
... David, I am not sure who your audience is. The crux of LVT is reclaiming community created wealth that soaked into the land crystallizing as land values....
Can anyone receiving this please suggest to me (at davewetzel42@...) an appropriate textbook that I can recommend to Talat in India. Dear all Can you...
Dave, I haven't read all the articles yet, because it's just come out, but the new Journal from University of Minnesota, Journal of Transport and Land USe, the...
A guaranteed minimum income was tried for 4 years in a Canadian town, then the plug was pulled during the 1978 recession there. No data analysis was done, but...
... Scott, very interesting. In the UK we have Income Support. You can be in a job and if the job does not meet your basic needs then you are topped up. I am...
... Old LandCafe hands will be aware that recovery of publicly created land rent for public purposes and benefit combined with a uniform, universal, individual...
I'm not sure how you envision a tax exemption for people who are too poor to pay taxes in the first place. 50% of the American working population does not pay...
Quoting Scott on the Spot on Tue, 15 May 2012 13:57:42 -0000: ____SSBaker___ I'm not sure how you envision a tax exemption for people who are too poor to pay...
Scott Bergeson wrote: While there are exceptions, low income generally does not exempt from "property" tax. If you're too poor to pay it, a sheriff's sale...
Here, I think is where theory and ideas have to be tested against actual data. 1. I've looked at the data in the past for entire states, MD, IN, NJ, and many...
Interesting assertion that land rents are .5% of land prices. -- Very truly yours John D. Kromkowski 6803 York Road -- Suite 207 Baltimore, MD 21212 Tel...
So here is some data from Baltimore City: Population 2004: 641,943 Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) From the Dept of Assessments and Taxation, I...
... They aren't too poor to pay land rent -- and even if they are, the exemption then makes sure they have secure access to enough good land (and more...
... That just provokes understatement (and concealment) of income and liquid assets. The point of the original article in this thread is that making the...
... Thank you! ... Right. But they do pay land rent. The exemption enables them to pay land rent with their exemptions, instead of having to fork over cash...
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bruno moser
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May 16, 2012 9:41 am
great job. How did you create this one? We need more of those, because they are kind of fun to watch. I appreciate your 0.5% rent ball-park-figure. Makes...
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bruno moser
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May 16, 2012 9:53 am
I appreciate the hands-on approach. Good job. ... b. On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:22 PM, jdk_maryland_atty ... -- Royal/Regal Land Economics Philadelphia, Hanoi,...
I wrote: For the low-income household the fairest "circuit breaker," in my view, is the allow the homeowner to apply to have the amount of property tax payment...
Hi Dave, There is a book by Marshall and Banister (2007) called Land Use and Transport - European research towards Integrated Policies. Published by Elsevier....
... Who games the universal individual income tax exemption, and how? ... The moral hazard remains. You are essentially creating a tax base that can be moved...
Roy - If you exempt 20% of the Land Value Tax, why wouldn't that just result in higher Land Prices by that amount instead? Doesn't the "Landowner collect all...
Asks Scott on the Spot on Thu, 17 May 2012 14:56:20 -0000: ___SSBaker___ Roy - If you exempt 20% of the Land Value Tax, why wouldn't that just result in higher...
... That's not what I propose to do. I propose to exempt each individual from LVT up to an amount that is roughly 20% of per capita land value. Use of land...
http://www.wickedlocal.com/arlington/news/opinions/x1310210352/Fiscal-Clarity-Two-distinct-aspects-of-property-tax#axzz1v9odsZae Dunno the author or what the...
Why 20% Roy. Is this just a practical consideration. I fully support a gradualist implementation. If land is for everybody (which it is), why should one have...