No, the whole rationale for taxing land value is that it does not
matter what the site owner does with the land.
What you are proposing is a kind of capital tax. I do not have
anything against it, but your face the economic consequences of
taxing capital.
No, because land is not capital.
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In the following example, it isn't the taxing itself that promotes growth,
but its spending.
If a state uses tax money to attract rich tourists to the area (by
advertising, for example), that could promote consumption, in such a way
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Well before yo tax idle land, you must be sure that the land
is wasted,
No, the whole rationale for taxing land value
position. Is there a problem with that?
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For a very brief period of time
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Gustavo
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This statemente is not true, investment decision are no taken for
government
advertisement campaigns
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How do you estimante market value?
With respect to land value, besides monitoring sales and rentals of
undeveloped land or sites such as parking lots, one estimates the
cost of replacing the building, subtracts depreciation, and that
amount is
with positive growth effect
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How do you estimante market value?
With respect to land value, besides monitoring sales and rentals of
undeveloped land or sites such as parking lots, one estimates the
cost of replacing the building, subtracts
How about taxing leisure; which would induce people to work more (or leave)?
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Has anybody read/heard about a tax which
Holding spending constant, it is certainly true that some taxes are
better for growth than other taxes. To summarize a large literature
taxes on capital tend to be very bad for growth because of positive
externalities associated with capital, taxes on income are better and
something like a
--- Kristjan Kanarik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anybody read/heard about a tax which does have a positive
effect on economic growth?
Yes. Land-value taxation promotes growth by having less excess
burden, and by inducing more productive use of suboptimally used
land.
You could also force
is : Does the land lord like to have idle land?
Alexander Guerrero
St Antnys College
Oxford University
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It wouldn't
In the following example, it isn't the taxing itself that promotes growth,
but its spending.
If a state uses tax money to attract rich tourists to the area (by
advertising, for example), that could promote consumption, in such a way
that the tax promotes growth more than it hampers it.
--- Alexander Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well before yo tax idle land, you must be sure that the land
is wasted,
No, the whole rationale for taxing land value is that it does not
matter what the site owner does with the land. Those who waste it
will have to pay the same rate as those
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