News - ALTER (Action for Land Taxation & Economic Reform)

Prospect Magazine publishes article advocating Land Value Taxation

The excellent political monthly Prospect has published an opinion piece that we hope will bring LVT to a wider audience. Written by Phillippe Legrain, who is to bring out a book "Afershock: reshaping the world economy after the crisis" in May, it gives a brief overview of the economic and social justice arguement. The article is at the Prospect webite (subcription only) but anyway the magazine is always worth buying. See http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/03/tax-the-ground-they-walk-on-2.

31 Mar 2010

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Get the yIPOD vote out to win the Millennium Election

Plaguarising the title of a piece by Matthew Norman in today's Independent, this is a first plug for a new website that could win across the disillusioned Millennium Generation to Lib Dems (on the basis of our modest switch of taxes off wealth creation onto property wealth accumulation)

31 Mar 2010

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Larry Elliot, Guardian Economics Journalist, In Support of a Land Valuation Tax

Opinion is warming towards land value taxation. See Guardian economics writer Larry Elliott's article yesterday, "Take on the City with a people's budget. Only one omission- Elliott should acknowlege that it is the Libdems, not Labour, who are leading the fight for socially just taxation.

23 Mar 2010

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Coalition for Economic Justice launches No.10 e-petition: taxLess4more

The Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ), of which ALTER is a member, has launched a petition on the No.10 website, which reads:-

4 Mar 2010

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Facing issues when implementing LVT

At a General Meeting of the Coalition for Economic Justice, on Friday 22nd January in London, at the School of Economic Science, a packed room heard speakers from four organisations set out some of the problems with implementing Land Value Taxation in Britain today.

1 Feb 2010

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Equality, Banking and Land

The Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ) of which ALTER is a member, is planning a one-day conference for the Spring, in the run-up to the General Election, on the subject of Equality. CEJ is working with the Equality Trust to bring together an even broader group of campaigners (mainly those working on anti-poverty and banking reform), trying to work out how these campaigns link.

30 Dec 2009

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