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A hymn for Tax Freedom Sunday

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It has come to our notice that at many church services this Sunday, July 4th, a special hymn will be sung to celebrate Tax Freedom Day on July 8th. It is estimated that this year, the 187 days between January 1st and July 8th are needed for each and every one of us to pay both our tax and our contribution to the government’s budget deficit. The Department of Work and Prayer has released a...

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Catholic church property empire scandal

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As a Catholic coming from a country where the Catholic church leads a hand-to-mouth existence, it came as a slight suprise to me to read here that the Italian Catholic church has been involved in a scandal involving the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, the Vatican congregation that uses proceeds from a property empire including 2,000 Rome apartments to fund missionary efforts. It...

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Emergency Ward Eleven

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The team are officially on holiday but we feel duty bound to publish this script passed to us by a contact working on a special comeback edition of the once famous soap opera. A preview of the build-up episode before Tuesday’s exciting budget edition in the House of Cuts.

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Fighting the 1930s arguments all over again

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Some commentators are suggesting that next week’s budget of retrenchment results from a re-run of the argument that arose in the 1930s. Introducing an article in the Financial Times on 17 June under the heading “Once again we must ask “Who Governs?”, Lord Skidelsky, emeritus professor of political economy at the University of Warwick, wrote. “In one sense, next week’s...

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Holiday time

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Holiday time is here and the team is taking a break. Watch out for the occasional piece, though, and we shall be back regularly in late July.

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Tax Justice shifting to our point of view

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We are delighted to see that Tax Justice Network is starting to coming round to the same view as ourselves, due to hard and tactful work by a few people, in particular, Carol Wilcox of the Labour Land Campaign, who has been patiently putting the LVT case. One of the fruits of these efforts is in recent postings on the TJN blog. Another is the latest edition of Tax Justice Focus, which is all about...

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E-petitions on PM’s web site

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The new administration is deciding what to do about the e-petitions service and will update users as soon as practicable. We suspect that it will be quietly done-away with, and so, amongst other things, no-one will ever get to know how many people are in favour of land value taxation.

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More land value the taxpayer will not get back

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East London Line – May 2010, originally uploaded to flickr by Danny McL. The East London Line extension has now opened with this fleet of new trains. With further extensions it will eventually link Highbury with various destinations in south and south-east London. There are many journeys that people will now be able to make faster and more easily. Of course this will have a significant effect...

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Wat is Grondwaarde Belasting?

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Grondwaarde Belasting beoogt staatsinkomen te heffen door middel van een jaarlijkse belasting op de huurwaarde van grond. De bedoeling is dat bestaande belastingen zullen worden vervangen, niet verhoogd. Mits geleidelijk en naar behoren toegepast, zal Grondwaarde Belasting een hele reeks sociale en economische initiatieven kunnen bekostigen, met inbegrip van woningen, vervoer en andere infra-structuur....

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