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Why people fail to understand Land Value Taxation

Here is an interesting article written by UK Liberal Democrat John Howell. 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. [...]

Fianna Fail supports a Site Value Tax – but not just yet

The journal.ie asked the political parties for their views on property tax. Their replies were as expected except for Fianna Fail who surprisingly have been persuaded by our arguments that a Site Value Tax is best. Here is an excerpt [...]

Land Taxation & the Renewal of Growth in the Irish Economy

Report by Fred Harrison: "Ireland’s lower corporate tax rate is a two-edged sword: it attracted foreign capital, but the net gains were either (i) capitalised into disruptively higher land values, which helped to fuel the property boom/bust, or (ii) were repatriated. Hong Kong’s much lower income tax heightened incentives to work, save and invest. Hong Kong is recognised as the most competitive economy in the world. We only need to compare the skyline of Hong Kong with Dublin to appreciate that something remarkably different was, and is, driving the Asian Tiger’s economic engine."

Call for professional site valuations for property tax – The Irish Times …

Call for professional site valuations for property tax – The Irish Times … SUZANNE LYNCH A PROFESSIONAL property assessor should be used to undertake site valuations when the property tax is introduced, an economics conference heard yesterday. Speaking at the Dublin Economics Workshop in Galway, economist Ronan Lyons said a State-wide checklist should be introduced [...]

Press Reports on Site Value Tax in Ireland

Image: tlindenbaum via Flickr Aaron McKenna picked up our arguments for a Site Value Tax over a property tax in his article in The Journal. See extract below Efficient use A better property tax (or at least a less bad one) would be a site value based tax, such as that economist Ronan Lyons [...]

Call for debate on Property Taxes by Dermot Lacey, Irish Labour Party

Smart Taxes does not agree with all of what Dermot has to say about a property tax below here – but that is not the point. The point is that we need this debate before any decision is made, hence we make space here for his opinion as a former Mayor of Dublin City. Don’t [...]

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