Good time to bug your MP

[Robinho]

Taxable land is any land that is owned either by a person, business or the government.

[Mich the Tester]

Taxable land is any land that is owned either by a person, business or the government.

And how will it be valued?

[Robinho]

By reading the link that i posted.

[speling bee]

I'm not a big fan of sin taxes. People should be free to drink as much or as little as they choose.

Other taxes would be minor and not integral to the debate of LVT.

If this is the list of UK taxes...



Then i'd scrap them all apart from road tax (vehicle excise duty) and council tax.

Council tax would be levied in the same way (on land value) just the the rate of tax and the way it was spent would be decided locally.

I'm still undecided about carbon emissions tax.

So you wouldn't take oil and gas extraction royalties? You've just scrapped it.

[tractor]

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Taxable land is any land that is owned either by a person, business or the government.

Oh dear!

[Robinho]

Oh dear!

What? Are you being stupid again?

[Robinho]

So you wouldn't take oil and gas extraction royalties? You've just scrapped it.

Haven't we been through this?

[tractor]

Or even how they are going to work out what taxable land there is. Even ONS does not yet produce that data even though they have had a recipient data set for it for years. Granted, I agree that it is finite as has been stated but no-one even knows how long the piece of string is so how they can project that it is workable is anyone's guess.

Bad form to quote ones' own post but for clarification....

The amount of taxable land is not and has never been quantified. How can you extrapolate revenue from such a nebulous base of information.

[tractor]

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What? Are you being stupid again?

YOU propose to tax the government and I'm being stupid.......

[Robinho]

If you own land then you are taxed for it. If nobody owns the land then it isn't taxed.

It's so ******* simple.