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From The Telegraph: New 95pc mortgages for first-time buyers – here’s how it would work State-backed loans for would-be homeowners to be unveiled in the Budget next week Plans to turn “Generation Rent into Generation Buy” that could help two million people get on the property ladder are to be unveiled as early as next week in the Chancellor’s Budget. The Prime Minister confirmed...

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The LVTC blog, by Henry Law

The comments in the LVTC Blog are a personal view of our Hon. Secretary Henry Law and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of the Campaign. This is a place for personal observations and comments on politics, economics, current affairs, on-going discussions on the potential for LVT to remedy some of the current ills, and the impact on Society of any of the above.  Please read and...

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LVT, the virtual world and a missed opportunity?

We regularly get told that land is no longer important in the world of the virtual economy, and that companies such as Apple and Google would get away with paying next to nothing. Yet people are still living in real houses, consuming real food and real energy, wearing real clothes, driving real cars, travelling in real trains and aircraft, purchasing real electronic goods made in real factories...

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The staff-cutting imperative

The current disruptions on the railways, the cost of care for the elderly and a host of other issues affecting labour-intensive services can all be traced to a single cause: that the principal sources of public revenue should come from the taxation of labour, goods and services rather than the taxation of the rental value of land, which is what we have consistently advocated.

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Arran farm evictions

There has been a wave of evictions of farmers on the Isle of Arran, following a ruling by the Supreme Court, that tenants’ rights granted under Scottish legislation in 2003 contravene the landowners’ rights under the European Convention of Human Rights. The case is complicated. In short, however, the ruling appears to contradict the principle that ownership of a land title is not the...

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The Canons of Taxation according to Adam Smith

Adam Smith’s Canons of Taxation are not easily found on the internet in their raw form; they are usually someone or other’s interpretation. So, for reference, here they are in their original form, as made available by the Library of Economics and Liberty.

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