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Here’s How Your State Could Reduce Taxes For Most Taxpayers And Stimulate Your Economy While Maintaining Complete Revenue Neutrality.

Apr 30, 2022 | Articles

Your state can gain these 2 advantages by taxing land assessments more and what is produced (like buildings) less. Find out the various ways to do this. It would be completely revenue-neutral since an economically beneficial tax would be reducing...

Green Party and Other Environmental Organization Platforms for Commons Rent/Land Value Tax Policy

Apr 30, 2022 | Articles

This document is a compendium of the Platform Planks of eleven Green Party and related other groups from six countries during a 40-year period that advocate for Land Value Taxation, aka “Commons Rent” Public Finance. Green Party of the United States, New Zealand...

Land Value Capture, Explained

Apr 20, 2022 | Video

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy What is “land value capture”? How does it work? And why have so many communities across the world applied this financial approach? This video explains land value capture and provides examples from within the...

Tax Induced Opportunities for Expanding Community Land Trust Housing in Portland, Oregon

Mar 28, 2022 | Groundswell

Consequences To Property Tax Systems For several years property tax reformers have been calling for a land value tax (LVT) to counteract rapidly rising home prices. A property tax system that raises the tax rate on land and lowers the rate on structures dampens the...

Should Sales Tax Fund Schools in Virginia?

Feb 19, 2022 | Groundswell

Senate Bill 472, which allows any Virginia locality to raise its sales tax 1% to fund school construction projects, passed the Senate with a 28-12 vote. This does away with the previous practice of the assembly passing sales tax increases in a piecemeal fashion. And...