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Action for Land Taxation and Economic Reform

"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."

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  • Fast track the Lib Dem £10,000 income tax threshold policy
    Article: Jan 31, 2012
    By William Davison

    ALTER supports the fast track of the Lib Dem £10,000 income tax threshold policy

    Please sign this to persuade George Osborne to fast track the Lib Dem policy to increase the income tax threshold to £10,000 in the next budget, and hence take thousands more people out of tax and put £700 back in people's pockets. There are measures that can be taken to pay for this including the clamp down on tax avoidance and a mansion tax. Please support this and help the Lib Dems to help the lowest paid and middle income workers in this country.

  • ALTER's Fringe meeting at Federal Conference
    Event: March 10, 2012 1:00 PM
    The Sage Gateshead (secure area) St Mary's Square Gateshead Quays Gateshead NE8 2JR

    ALTER's Fringe meeting at Federal Conference

    Venue: 1 - Sage Gateshead
    Room: MEC 22
    Meeting Time: 13.00 - 14.00

    Details to follow.

    Spring Conference, 9-11 March 2012, NewcastleGateshead

    NewcastleGateshead will be playing host to the Liberal Democrats' spring conference 2012.

    Conference will open on Friday 9 March 2012 with consultative sessions at 15.00 and the Conference Rally at 18.30 followed by an evening fringe programme from 20.15. The formal opening of conference will take place in the auditorium on Saturday 10 March at 09.00. On Sunday 11 March, conference will close at approximately 13.00.

  • ALTER's Fringe meeting at Scottish Spring Conference in Inverness
    Event: March 2, 2012 5:15 PM
    Eden Court Bishop's Road, Inverness IV3 5SA

    ALTER is plannig a fringe meeting and stand at the Scottish Spring Conference in Inverness

    This will be inaugal meeting for ALTER Scotland.

    Details to follow.

    http://www.scotlibdems.org.uk/files/ConferenceRegistrationSpring2012.pdf

    Scottish Spring Conference 2012 - Inverness

    Eden Court Bishop's Road, Inverness IV3 5SA
    Friday 2nd - Sunday 4th March

  • Quotes in support of Land Tax
    Page: Oct 16, 2011

    Famous quotes in support of Land Tax


    The annual produce of the land and labour of the society, the real wealth and revenue of the great body of the people, might be the same after such a tax as before. Ground-rents and the ordinary rent of land are, therefore, perhaps, the species of revenue which can best bear to have a peculiar tax imposed upon them.

    Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V, Chap. 2, Art.1


    Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.

    John Stuart Mill - Political Economy (1848), Book V, Chap. 2, Sec. 5


    The tax upon land values is, therefore, the most just and equal of all taxes. It is the taking by the community, for the use of the community, of that value which is the creation of the community.

    Henry George - Progress and Poverty (1879)


    Roads are made, streets are made, railway services are improved, ...water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off in the mountains - and all the while the landlord sits still… To not one of these improvements does the land monopolist as a land monopolist contribute, and yet by every one of them the value of his land is sensibly enhanced.

    Winston Churchill - Speaking in 1909 for the People's budget


    Search out every problem, look into these questions thoroughly, and the more thoroughly you look into them you will find that the land is at the root of most of them. Housing, wages, food, health…

    David Lloyd George - Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Aberdeen, 29th November 1912


    If a tax were imposed equal to the annual use value of real property ex its improvement, so that it would now have no net earnings and hence no capital value of its own -- progress would be orderly and its fruits would be equitably shared.

    John Kenneth Galbraith 1908 - 2006 - The Affluent Society (1958)


    So the question is, which are the least bad taxes? In my opinion the least bad tax is the property tax on the unimproved value of land, the Henry George argument of many, many years ago.

    Milton Friedman - Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, speaking in 1978


    Land value taxation is a "no-brainer"…It is both fair and efficient. It should be adopted.

    Martin Wolf - Chief economics commentator at the Financial Times


    The taxation of future growth in land values "to eliminate the fever of land speculation" that has "ended up destabilising the entire global economy"… is what Labour should have done and should commit to in future.

    Polly Toynbee - Columnist, writing in The Guardian, 13th July 2010


    The wealth produced over the centuries by the efforts of the community is reflected in land values and is therefore a proper target for taxation.

    Vince Cable - In foreword to 'The Case For A New People's Budget'


    "The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force."
    Mervyn King, in the standard textbook on the British tax system :Kay & King, 1990 p.179


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  • ALTER flyer LVT Agric v2
    Document: Sep 14, 2011
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  • ALTER to oppose extension of criminal law for squatting
    Article: Sep 8, 2011
    By David Cooper

    If squatters take over your home, it is a criminal offence. Other properties are protected only by civil law. The Conservative Justice Minister Crispin Blunt has launched a consultation which proposes that squatting in all properties should be criminalized. Surely this is in our best interests?

    ALTER says not, and has explained why in its answer to the consultation. This change is contrary to the interests of UK taxpayers. It would provide a valuable state funded benefit to wealthy tax avoiders. This influential lobby has the ear of Conservative Justice Minister Crispin Blunt. If he were concerned about ordinary property owners who actually pay tax in the UK, there are far cheaper ways of protecting them from squatters.

  • Submission to Ministry of Justice Consultation on Criminal Law for Squatting
    Document: Sep 8, 2011
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