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Rather than all at once, there are many advantages of moving to LVT one property at a time.

Members of Common Ground OR-WA are members of Common Ground USA who reside in Oregon and Washington. We work on state and local issues.

Un Proyecto Internacional trabajando para revelar al pueblo la verdadera causa de la pobreza . . . ¡y su remedio definitivo!

Un Proyecto Internacional trabajando para revelar al pueblo la verdadera causa de la pobreza . . . ¡y su remedio definitivo!

Un Proyecto Internacional trabajando para revelar al pueblo la verdadera causa de la pobreza . . . ¡y su remedio definitivo!

A single-issue non-party/all-party organisation based in the UK, we propose that the rental value of land should be collected and used as the principal source of public revenue, as a replacement for present taxes on wages, profits, goods and services. This policy is a prerequisite if chronic economic problems are to be eliminated.

How? Nearly every country in the world is affected by poverty and unemployment; widening divisions between rich and poor; boom-slump cycles; housing shortages; inadequate infrastructure; and damage to the environment. These economic ills persist, seemingly intractably, despite unprecedented developments in science and technology. All of them are ultimately related to the different economic behaviour of 'land' in contrast to man-made consumer and capital goods, whose supply can be, and normally is, varied and transported in response to demand.

Land is otherwise. No more can be made: each plot of land is unique and immovable. Its total supply is fixed. Consequently, the market in land behaves differently from the market in products. Land value comes from the natural and man-made advantages of location, which derive from the presence and activities of the community as a whole.

It follows that the value of land, its rent, is peculiarly suitable as the basic source of public revenue. This is not really taxation, but payment for the right to occupy land and enjoy the benefits of occupation; however, the policy is usually known as "Land Value Taxation" It operates as an annual charge on the rental value of land, assuming that each site was in its optimum permitted use. Since the idea cuts across all political divisions, the Campaign has no party political affiliations.

The aim of the NDP Land Campaign - - is to improve the understanding of and support for Land Value Taxation amongst members of the New Democratic Party; to encourage all New Democrats to promote and campaign for this policy as part of a more sustainable and just resource based economic system in which no one is enslaved by poverty; and to cooperate with other bodies, both inside and outside the New Democratic Party, who share these objectives.

SFR's proposals for collecting annual rental values without the pain, routing around the roadblocks, avoiding economic seismic events and of course in a politically achievable way.

The Aim of Liberal Democrat Action for Land Taxation and Economic Reform (ALTER) is: "To improve the understanding of and support for Land Value Taxation amongst members of the Liberal Democrats; to encourage all Liberal Democrats to promote and campaign for this policy as part of a more sustainable and just resource based economic system in which no one is enslaved by poverty; and to cooperate with other bodies, both inside and outside the Liberal Democrat Party, who share these objectives."

Natural resources are the Common Heritage of all human beings, and the values of these resources are Common Property belonging equally to all citizens.

The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation (RSF) is an operating foundation to promote public awareness of the social philosophy and economic reforms advocated by Henry George (1839-1897).

Earth Rights Institute promotes policies and programs to further democratic rights to common heritage resources, and build ecological communities.

The Progress Report, for daily news and views on economic rent capture.

The program we study and implement is called Land Value Taxation. Land Value Taxation (LVT) can be a tool to promote economic justice, responsible stewardship of the earth and its resources, and as a way to promote growth where wanted.

At the Henry George School you will learn how the economy really works, why it crashes from time to time, and why poverty persists even during prosperity.

Earthsharing Australia - dedicated to achieving economic justice for all people, and to reforming the way we treat our limited planetary resources. Land bubbles lead to housing pressures, resource scarcity to mining booms. Let's share these natural profits and remove taxation and paperwork.