ALTER (Action for Land Taxation &
Economic Reform)

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The UK's not so progressive income taxes

UK income based taxes are not as progressive as many think.

The chart below is the marginal tax rates for Income Tax and Employers and Employees National Insurance combined. This gives the full cost of taxes on labour, including the often forgotten Employers National insurance. When you take into account the perfectly legal ways that income taxes can be avoided with various tax reliefs like pensions etc the income based taxes are possibly flat or even regressive, rather than progressive.

19 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.

JHALTER
19 Sep 2012
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A Bill to research Land Value Taxation - By Tony Vickers.

Calling all with an interest in major reform of Britain's property taxes. The Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has tabled a Private Members Bill.... "to require the Secretary of State to commission a programme of research into the merits of replacing the Council Tax and Non-domestic rates in England with an annual levy on the unimproved value of all land, including transitional arrangements"

18 Sep 2012
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Brighton Conference papers

The 3 main conference papers of interest to ALTER: Policy Paper 104 - Decent Homes for All.............. Policy Paper 105 -Sustainable Prosperity and Jobs (Consultation Document) 107 - Taxation.............

17 Sep 2012
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