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?
Superb article in today's Observer on how a new breed of plutocrats are buying up the 'great' estates, why they need to be taxed, and how LVT provides an answer…
ALTER's Executive Committee has agreed the wording for a Motion to be submitted for debate at the Party's main Conference this autumn in Birmingham. Entitled...
As ALTER President Chris Huhne hinted two weeks earlier at ALTER's AGM, George Osborne's second Coalition Government Budget on 23rd March included a surprise policy that the Lib Dem Party Conference had approved three years earlier: a pilot scheme for Community Land Auctions, to transfer most of the unearned land value uplift that goes with award of planning permission from the landowner to the community.
Conference began for ALTER with several members attending the consultation on Friday afternoon on the outline Inequality policy paper, where LVT was given an airing.
ALTER is about to submit a paper on fundamental questions of tax policy to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee. The final draft of the paper can be downloaded from this site at http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/en/document/documents-on-lvt-produced-within-alter/fundamentals-of-taxation.