The Essential Reform:
Land Value Taxation
In Theory and Practice
C. H. Chomley and R. L. Outhwaite
[Part 15 of 15]
The remaining chapters of this work are not here reproduced, as they
deal specificially with the circumstances existing in Australia and
New Zealand at the time of the authors' writing. Chapter titles and
abstracts from the book's table of contents are reproduced below:
| Chapter XV |
National staxation now practical
in England -- Capital land value of england about L6,000,000,000
-- A tax of 2d. would give about L50,000,000 per yea r -- If this
amount were raised the rates culd be relieved of the cost of
national services, such as education, poor relief, police and main
roads; and Inhabited House duty and the breakfast-table duties
could be abolished |
| Chapter XVI |
The example of the Colonies --
Land values taxation and rating in New Zealand, Queensland and
south Australia, and the results |
| Chapter XVII |
Examination of the land value
rating system in New South Wales |
| Chapter XVIII |
Practical means of bringing the
tax into effect -- Simple means of valuation adopted elsewhere |
| Chapter XVIV |
How the different interets in
land values under British tenures could be made to contribute
their equitable shre of the tax |
| Chapter XX |
Objections answered -- Case of
the farmer and the small freeholder |
| Chapter XXI |
Objections answered -- Cse of
Friendly Societies and small investors -- Their contribution to a
land values tax would be small -- to a protective tariff
crushingly heavy |
| Chapter XXII |
Objections answered -- That the
tax would cause closing of open spaces -- That it would cause
over-building -- That it would be passed on to the tenant, etc. |
| Chapter XXIII |
The effects, financial and
social, that may reasonably be expected from a substantial tax on
land values |
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