Land Value Tax News



OIL Fields Are no Pasture for Reindeer, Federation Council Says
Kommersant - Moscow,Russia
.... Russia’s Federation Council addressed Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov yesterday, advocating the increase in land tax imposed on the fields and deposits of oil/gas/mining companies. The regions claim today’s system of cadastral valuation underestimates the value of such allotments leaving the local budgets with no money ... <http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=586627>


JULY date set for land levy launch
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
The day after the civic polls in Calcutta and Salt Lake, the Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee government announced the launch of land tax collection in
the city and ...
<http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050621/asp/calcutta/story_4893215.asp>

$10.8 MILLION TO BRAZIL FOR RURAL CADASTRE AND LAND REGULARIZATION
Harold Doan and Associates (press release) - Rocklin,CA,USA
.... will pave the way for land use management projects, facilitating government land access programs, and making collection of the rural land tax more effective ...
<http://www.harolddoan.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3881>


PROPERTY tax faces overhaul
The Spokesman Review (subscription) - Spokane,WA,USA
.... It exempted from taxation 50 percent of the value of an owner-occupied
home, not counting the land, up to a maximum of $50,000. ...
<http://www.spokesmanreview.com/idaho/story.asp?ID=77136>

LINGLE signs land tax into law
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
By BJ Reyes. Gov. Linda Lingle ignored the advice of some fellow Republicans yesterday by signing a bill into law that will increase...I did what was right for all the people in the state, and I put it above my political career."
<http://starbulletin.com/2005/06/24/news/story1.html>
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Relevant Pages

  • Land Econ News
    ... Pierce is a big fan of land value taxation, ... Hamilton said that he personally has faith in the market economy, but that the university has no position on such issues... ... Direct land tax collection rates saw a sharp increase in 2005, ...
    (sci.econ)
  • Land News
    ... Land has answer to taxing problem ... No one mentions land tax, which runs itself for each locality, so reducing ... Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam ... He said ZA Bhutto had plans to distribute all state land among the landless ...
    (sci.econ)
  • Re: Land tax -- success stories? (Re: better tax code: no income tax, head tax (&| ppty
    ... RodgerDodger essays some remarkably dishonest anti-geoist arguments. ... Then please explain the positive outcome of cities and states where land ... And one city, Pittsburgh, where the program self-immolated in most ... True, a land tax too small to be noticed will not have much effect, ...
    (sci.econ)
  • Re: land speculation takes over Asia
    ... >" There is no doubt that the prices of real estate properties are sky high. ... >It is said that the total valuation for land in Korea is six times greater ... The present value equation implies that when the sum of the land tax ... economic growth rate, the current market value of land diverges (i.e., ...
    (sci.econ)

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