News - ALTER

How Many Homes Are Empty? … by emptyhomes.com

Emptyhomes.com estimates: 720,000 empty homes are currently empty in England of which 279,000 are long- term empty (i.e. empty for more than six months) 930,000 empty homes across the UK, 350,000 of which are long term empty. A report for the government in 2004 estimated that there were a further 300,000 empty flats above shops or part of other commercial buildings.[1] House builders sitting on 400,000 undeveloped plots of land with planning permission - The Daily Telegraph [2]

15 Sep 2012

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BERKSHIRE LIB DEMS CALL FOR VACANT LAND TAX TO BOOST HOUSING

South Central Liberal Democrats: Press Release on Vacant Land Tax Three Berkshire Liberal Democrat members are playing a leading role in their party's tax policy review, which began this summer and will feature in at least three debates[1] at next week's Party Conference in Brighton. They belong to a fast growing campaign group ALTER (Action on Land Tax & Economic Reform), which includes Nick Clegg and two other Cabinet members (Dr Vince Cable and Ed Davey) as Vice Presidents, with Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne as President.

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by Dr Tony Vickers

14 Sep 2012

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The Taxation of Land and Property - Institute for Fiscal Studies

Most taxes nowadays are levied on flows of income and of expenditure. But land and property have been taxed for centuries-certainly for longer than income-and they continue to form an important part of the tax base in most advanced economies.

16 Sep 2012

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Land Value Taxation in Britain Experience and Opportunities - Published 2004

Contents Foreword by C. Lowell Harriss ix

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by Owen Connellan with contributing authors Nathaniel Lichfi eld, Frances Plimmer and Tony Vickers

17 Sep 2012

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The Lib Dems need to be more liberal - By Samuel Brittan in FT

A very interesting column in the FT by Samuel Brittan, which sums up the direction that ALTER believes the party should take.

13 Sep 2012

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Why people fail to understand Land Value Taxation

To those who know and love Land Value Tax (LVT) the case for it seems self-explanatory, compelling and unanswerable. Yet strangely it all too often turns out to be a very hard sell. Present economic theory rests on false assumptions established so long ago that people have forgotten what they are. So the difficulty in explaining the immediate relevance of LVT is that one has to clarify first principles at the same time. This is not so easy. An audience waiting to hear how to revive the economy will not want to be asked to revise basic concepts they think they already know.

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by John Howell - ALTER member

19 Sep 2012

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How Many Homes Are Empty? … by emptyhomes.com

BERKSHIRE LIB DEMS CALL FOR VACANT LAND TAX TO BOOST HOUSING

The Taxation of Land and Property - Institute for Fiscal Studies

Land Value Taxation in Britain Experience and Opportunities - Published 2004

The Lib Dems need to be more liberal - By Samuel Brittan in FT

Why people fail to understand Land Value Taxation

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