Land Tax News


The vultures of Mlolongo
Kenya Times - Kenya
....The perverse system of taxation that Kenya has inherited from the British rewards the idle landowner’s sloth, while punishing the working people’s industry. The perversion consists in the fact that the value of the idle property increases by the day not because of what its owner does, but because of what the people on the other side of the road do ...
<http://www.timesnews.co.ke/10may06/magazine/magazine2.html>

A 2-tiered solution to the property tax plight
Newark Star Ledger - NJ, USA
.... chairman of the Assembly Budget Committee, said the idea of a two-tiered tax system, first suggested in 1879 by economist Henry George, is "interesting on its ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1146721898263090.xml&coll=1>

Tax reform ideas
Trenton Times - Trenton,NJ,USA
.... This scenario -- based on the old Henry George single-tax theory dating to the 19th century -- proposes taxing land and property at different rates, with land ...
<http://www.nj.com/opinion/times/editorials/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1147075845284600.xml&coll=5>

Bolivian government announces agricultural land reform
People&#39;s Daily Online - Beijing,China
The Bolivian government announced on Monday that it would reform the country's land ownership, aimed at giving agricultural land to landless peasants, reports ...
<http://english.people.com.cn/200605/09/eng20060509_264102.html>

Property tax breaks to continue for Anchorage church
KTVA - Anchorage,AK,USA
.... The church says it shouldn't have to pay property taxes on the structures because they're owned by a nonprofit religious organization. The city says the church should pay taxes because the people who live there aren't clergy members ...
<http://www.ktva.com/topstory/ci_3798704>

Veteran, longtime Fairhope surveyor dies
Mobile Register - Mobile,AL,USA
.... Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Disabled American Veterans; the Optimists Club; the First Church of Christ, and a longtime instructor of Henry George Single Tax ...
<http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1147080032168330.xml&coll=3>

Welfare or Earthshare?
On Line opinion - Australia
.... in this direction. Mayor Stephen Reed of Harrisburg has stated that "a land value taxation system ... is an important incentive ...
<http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4436>

Affordable housing: How did it get this bad?
Payson Roundup - Payson,AZ,USA
....By 2006, housing prices turned "Mediterranean Avenue" into "Boardwalk," squeezing out the moderately priced accommodations of "Marvin Gardens." ... more than 30 years later, with a shortage of affordable housing, Payson's workforce can't get out of economic jail.
<http://www.paysonroundup.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/23348>

>From Bubble to Rubble
The New American - USA
....current issue of Harper's ... cover story entitled “The New Road to Serfdom” by Dr. Michael Hudson, Distinguished Professor of Economics ... Predicts Hudson: “A real estate boom that began with the promise of `economic freedom' almost certainly will end with a growing number of workers locked into a lifetime of debt service that absorbs every spare penny.”
<http://www.thenewamerican.com/birchblog/index.php?entry=entry060505-142954>

Final thoughts on oil and gas
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks,AK,USA
.... oil industry executives have accepted the state's view that the current oil taxation system, based on production rates and with its outdated economic limit factor, is no longer working well for Alaska. The problem is an obvious one in that some profitable fields under the ELF system have seen their tax rates fall to near zero...
<http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7252~3304966,00.html>

Philippine farm workers rally after organizers murdered
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
BACOLOD CITY, Philippines (UCAN) – Thousands of farm workers have rallied to denounce the killing of land reform activists in the central Philippines and to ...
<http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=19703>

New ACT minister targets housing costs
ABC Regional Online - Australia
....he says housing affordability for young people needs to be addressed by removing the exemption for homeowners from capital gains and land tax..."These tax exemptions undoubtedly favour the majority of homeowners, especially those who are older or wealthier, but in my view they are pricing young people out of the market,"...
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1628797.htm>

A break for small farmers or a speculator's subsidy?
Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville,VA,USA
.... faux farmers” and speculators benefiting from land-use taxation...
<http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%2FCDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137835680296&path=!news>

Land tax ‘four times more profitable’
Inside Housing - UK
The new land tax proposed by the Treasury would bring in four times more resources than the current system, new research has claimed. ...
<http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/default.aspx?contentid=6563a773-261f-429e-bab5-3e185465ff20&newsid=1447546>

Holy Theme Park Wants Tax Break
WXIA-TV - NE Atlanta,GA,USA
TALLAHASSEE (AP) -- The Holy Land Experience biblical theme park near Orlando wouldn't have to pay property tax under a bill passed today by the House ...
<http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=79109>

Part 1: Monopoly According to Charles Darrow
About - Cities &amp; Towns - New York,NY,USA
.... Lizzie Magie belonged to a tax movement led by Philadelphia-born Henry George; the movement supported the theory that the renting of land and real estate ...
<http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121997.htm?terms=monopoly>


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