The Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has tabled a Private Members Bill.... "to require the Secretary of State to commission a programme of research into the merits of replacing the Council Tax and Non-domestic rates in England with an annual levy on the unimproved value of all land, including transitional arrangements"
Supportive article in the Guardian from George Monbiot, showing how British society is "parisitised from above" by a wealthy landowning class.
The respected political monthly Prospect Magazine has published an article by ALTER's secretary David Cooper showing how landowers freeload on the productive part of the economy, diverting £100Bn annually in the UK alone from productive effort into unproductive rent seeking.
The UK's Coalition Government, formed in May 2010, consists of the centre-right Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats, who are generally regarded as 'centrist'. Conservatives outnumber Lib Dems about 5 to 1 in Parliament, however Lib Dems claim that 75% of their manifesto is in the Coalition Agreement, which is the programme for government until 2015.
George Osborne is being urged by leading Tory MPs to raise council tax on mansions and expensive homes as part of a deal with the Liberal Democrats that would see the chancellor cut welfare benefits in real terms next year.
