Taxes and Property: an insight into RICS' study
Property Taxation - Time for Reform 03.02.2011.ppt - slides of a talk by Jeremy Edge to PLRG on 3rd Feb 2011. Since the RICS launched their major study last summer, it is clear that the scope of what …
Complete Chronicle (2003 – 2011)
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All 82 articles, parliamentary & RICS consultation notes, international case reports, and seminar dispatches written by Dr Tony Vickers.
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Irish election and property taxes
PLRG's Chairman, Dave Wetzel, has been advising certain parties across the Irish Sea about property tax. Currently there is no form of 'rating' (local property tax) in Eire, although in Northern Irela…
Land Tax policy in Hong Kong: book widely read in China
This just came to the attention of Landvaluescape. It is taken from an article in the South China Morning Post last July. Coming from someone who worked inside Hong Kong's property cartel, it confirms…
Academic post 'up north' may suit PLRG member
We have been asked by Dr Seraphim Alvanides to advertise this lecturer post at Northumbria University, likely to be attractive to anyone interested in land value capture theory and practice. Note clos…
Scottish Land Tax a step closer
The Scotland Bill , which has its second reading today, contains a powerful increase in freedom for Scotland to introduce entirely new taxes. Although much of the debate has centred on the " Scottish …
Parliament looks at fundamentals of Land Value Taxation
This week the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons began hearing evidence on the Fundamentals of Tax Policy. Members of the Mirrlees Review team of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, which …
Tax Shifting: doing it in Britain 2011
Transitional Issues.doc is a draft paper, prepared by PLRG Hon Sec Dr Tony Vickers for the Coalition for Economic Justice , drawing on his work over 10 years researching the barriers to implementation…
Edge to open PLRG 2011 Programme
Jeremy Edge, principal of Edge Planning & Development, will be the first speaker of 2011 - on Thursday 3rd February at 6pm - for PLRG's series of stimulating evening lectures on aspects of land value …
PLRG hears from Future-planner of past housing funding chaos
PLRG was given a fascinating insight into the black hole of past UK housing policy by Stephen Hill, Director of Future Planners, at its last meeting on 24th November. Hill summed up the reason at the …
Mirrlees calls for LVT
Among the "radical changes" recommended by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in its Review of the Tax System by Nobel Laureate Sir James Mirrlees is Land Value Taxation. (see Chapter 16 of the In…
Newcastle could put PLRG on the map
A project to help devise a methodology for calculating and demonstrating the tax yield for infrastructure projects from Tax Increment Financing (TIF) could become the first research originating within…
PLRG speaker gives keynote on Land at Waterfront
Stephen Hill, who gives the next PLRG talk on Wed 24th November, was opening keynote speaker at a Waterfront Conference on The Future for Housing Delivery yesterday (17th November). He clearly pointed…
Is Wadsworth too simple for Wandsworth?!
Simplifying the tax system.ppt.pdf has been offered to PLRG by Mark Wadsworth, the author of a Bow Group (Conservative centre-right think-tank) contribution to the present Government's tax policy thin…
Scottish Greens, English Lib Dems & Tory councillor Call for Land Tax
Scotland's Green Party has commissioned a repor t by land reformer Andy Wightman which sets out a path towards Land Value Taxation. This comes days after a Liberal Democrat conference in Oxford, of th…
UN SWOTs on Land Value Capture
Did you know that the UN supports Land Value Taxation? In 2006, UN HABITAT awarded a contract to the US-based Earth Rights Institute to develop one of several Global Land Tools for the benefit of gove…
RICS Workshop no.2 on Tax & Property in UK
Volterra note 22 Oct10.doc is a brief record by PLRG Hon Sec Dr Tony Vickers of a workshop he attended at the invitation of RICS to discuss how various taxes affect those who own, occupy and invest in…
FuturePlanner speaks to PLRG on 24th Nov
Stephen Hill, Director of C 2 O futureplanners and a member of RICS' Planning & Development Professional Group Board, has kindly agreed to be the next speaker in the series of talks for the Profession…
The coming battle over land and property
This is the title of an article in this week's New Statesman by its editor Jason Cowley. It gives a good overview of the historical background to the great "unquestioned" issue of democracy and market…
Lib Dems call for research on wealth taxes
At their Party Conference last month, Liberal Democrats overwhelmingly backed a motion aimed at ensuring that the Coalition Government's austerity measures protect the most vulnerable and do not allow…
Constructive Taxation: land value capture as a regeneration tool
Brief for UK Government.doc This paper was prepared at the request of a member of the Coalition Government. It is not known how - if at all - it will be used. However it is a matter of public record t…
China Rising: will the property bubble there burst too?
The Professional Land Reform Group (PLRG) held its first evening meeting at the new venue of London South Bank University (LSBU) on 16 September. Speaker Dave Wetzel, an independent transport consulta…
RICS reviews property taxes
RICS, the leading property professionals' organisation, in July 2010 commissioned an independent review of how taxation impacts on the land and property sectors in the UK, throughout the 'property lif…
Newcastle offers to be Smart Tax study site
Ten years ago, as New Labour was mid-term in its first Parliament, Liverpool voted to ask Government to be allowed to pilot Land Value Taxation. Now it could be Newcastle that undertakes a follow-up, …
CentreForum asks Legrain to write on Land Tax
The think-tank CentreForum plans to commission a book by one of the many independent commentators on political economy to have recently written favourably about a land value tax: Philippe Legrain . Th…
Research Opportunities in LVT for UK?
As a reporter in the Mail discovered last Saturday, one of the Coalition parties (no prizes for guessing which one!) will be debating Land Value Taxation at its Conference, next week in Liverpool. The…
China Needs LVT - first PLRG talk at LSBU 16 Sep 6pm
The Professional Land Reform Group ( PLRG ) is pleased to announce that London South Bank University has offered to host its bi-monthly meetings, starting with a talk by PLRG Chairman Dave Wetzel enti…
Green Economics Conference Report
Dr Tony Vickers attended the Green Economics Institute's annual conference at Mansfiled College Oxford on 30th July, to present a paper jointly written by his two PhD supervisors and himself which dre…
GEI Landvaluescape Paper
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Introducing Landvaluescape and the PLRG
Is the word "landvaluescape" familiar to you? If so, it will almost certainly be for one of two reasons: (1) you have come across Tony Vickers in recent years, whose research website this is; (2) you …
Land and Tax reform in China - free talk 16th September
The next meeting of PLRG , on Thursday 16th September (6pm) at London South Bank University , will hear from its Chairman Dave Wetzel about Land Value Taxation in China . Dave has been invited several…
Landvaluescape for Green Property Taxes
The subject for an informal talk at the next meeting of the PLRG will be Landvaluescape for Green Property Taxes . It will be given by Dr Tony Vickers, Hon Sec of PLRG, at the School of Economic Scien…
PLRG next meeting 1st July - infrastructure funding the focus
At the meeting on 29th April to re-launch the Professional Land Reform Group (PLRG) it was agreed to hold routine bi-monthly meetings in London, as the organisation develops its programme of activitie…
Changing the Mould - what will it mean for LVT?
With the prospect of a Balanced Parliament comes great opportunity for serious research into property tax reform. The Liberal Democrats, who seem more than likely to be decisive in the outcome for Gov…
Calling Notice: Thursday 29th April 5.30pm, meeting to re-launch PLRG
The Professional Land Reform Group (PLRG) was formed in 2004 by UK-based professionals with a mission as follows:- "To debate and develop ideas and policies on land use and tax reform, among professio…
Re-launch of the Professional Land Reform Group
A meeting is to be held in London next month to re-launch the Professional Land Reform Group (PLRG), whose mission is... "to debate and develop ideas and policies on land use and tax reform, among pro…
Professional Land Reform Group to re-launch
A group of professionals who share an interest in the subject of land value capture (LVC) formed the Professional Land Reform Group in 2004. Their Chair since PLRG's formation has been Dave Wetzel , w…
Visualising Landvaluescape for Britian: thesis published
My doctoral studies have now ended at Kingston University and I am able to reveal, in detail, what I found. I was looking at how practical and useful it might be today to represent Britain's "economic…
Landvaluescape thesis completed
My PhD thesis at Kingston University was completed this summer and I passed the Viva, subject to minor corrections which I have done. I now await a formal letter accepting these corrections, whereupon…
Local Economy publishes Landvaluescape article
Local Property Taxation as a Strategic Planning Tool in UK: Can 'Landvaluescape' Play a Role at Local Levels ? This is the title of an article published in the latest (August 2008) issue of Local Econ…
Brownfield Study takes step towards a national land use database
A report published by English Partnerships (the national regeneration agency) last month, of a study in which Landvaluescape researcher Tony Vickers played a major part, shows the way towards a full N…
Make change-makers pay to record change
There is a growing body of opinion that public information, already paid for out of general taxation, ought not to be commodified. See http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ At the very least, some of the cos…
Brownfield data: Can We Do Better?
As reported in March, Modern Maps proprietor Tony Vickers will have a major role in a study for the UK Government's regeneration agency English Partnerships on the future of the National Land Use Data…
English Land Use Database under review
Kingston University researcher Tony Vickers, who lectures at the School of Surveying on Green Taxes, is to have a major role in a study for English Partnerships (EP - the UK's urban regeneration agenc…
UN HABITAT funds Land Tax project
Under the auspices of UN HABITAT's Global Land Tools Network (GLTN), a contract worth $20,000 has been placed with Earth Rights Institute of America http://www.earthrights.net/ to develop an on-line "…
The Next FIG, the Next Utility?
For the third FIG Congress Running, Tony Vickers will be presenting a paper on his research relating to Value Maps and Land Value Taxation. On Monday 9th October in Munich, TS 17 - Land Value Maps and…
Professional Land Reform Group agrees Mission & Research Manifesto
A new group for professional people interested in land and tax reform has been set up. Called the Professional Land Reform Group, it has cross-party support and members from many professions: planning…
Tax Shift Now! FreeThink discussion launched
The think-tank CentreForum has published the discussion draft of a paper it commissioned by Tony Vickers on its FreeThink site at http://www.free-think.com/land-value-taxation/ With support from the J…
Demonstration landvaluescape graphics
Owing to demand for examples of what is meant by 'landvaluescape graphics', I am making available here an appendix I wrote for a Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Paper " Preparing to Pilot Lan…
Scandinavian land tax - latest news and UK lessons
Tony Vickers visited Sweden and Denmark in November 2005 to study recent developments in the use of GIS for property taxes, as well as how these fit within their overall tax systems. The findings of t…
Fiscal Crisis in UK: new book
A new book The Fiscal Crisis in the United Kingdom by political economist Professor Iain McLean casts a light on the tax reform debate in Britain. McLean shows a clear understanding of the role of lan…
Ministers asked to "question closely" RICS research findings on LVT
"Detailed research" commissioned by RICS for its response to the Government on Kate Barker's proposed Planning Gain Supplement is questioned by Tony Vickers in a letter to ODPM Minister Jim Fitzpatric…
Among Critical Issues again
A paper based on this research, co-authored with my Kingston University supervisors, is about to be published by Richmond Law & Tax in the third volume of their international series Critical Issues in…
Japanese required?
The services of London-based Japanese expert David Vickers have been secured for a six-month period, to assist with Landvaluescape research. David has a Masters Degree in Advanced Japanese and a keen …
Final Delphi Workshop
For participants in the UK Value Mapping Workshop on 11th July 2005 and others who have been following my PhD research, the latest document drawing on the Policy Delphi Process which this event conclu…
Oxfordshire County County studies LVT report
From the minutes of the Executive of the Council on 15 March: 72/05. LAND VALUE TAX (Agenda Item 26) The Executive considered a report EX26 which summarised the outcome of the Land Tax Working Group’s…
Final Value Maps Delphi Analysis
The third and final Round of a Policy Delphi on Value Maps has been completed and analysed. A report can be downloaded to see what 23 experts and stakeholder representatives thought of the proposed Ac…
Issue 5: December 2004
Download my latest research newsletter to find out what I've been doing during the second half of this year. Highlights : Lithuania may be a model for UK's GI Strategy. The Action Plan for UK Value Ma…
Best Value Map in England & Wales?
Is this the best we can do, until basic property information is more reliable and freely available? The map, by David Holloway using data originally from the Land Registry, shows the approximate cost …
Valuebill after Acacia: Addressing Addressing!
The Government project that puts geography into property taxation could rejuvenate and help finance the work that local authorities need to do to complete their local land and property gazetteers. But…
Addressing: Guardian Society 1 Dec 04
Several journalists have taken an interest in my research, especially the GI Policy aspects. I was quoted in the Economist of 27 Nov (page 35 UK edition) in an article "Where is everybody?" and in the…
Vickers to join AGI Council
In an election of the whole membership, the UK Association for Geographic Information (AGI) has just voted Tony Vickers of Modern Maps onto its governing Council. Vickers will take up his appointment …
Global Taxation Matters
A Revealing Landvaluescape "making property tax more acceptable using value maps" is the title of a paper just submitted for publication by Richmond Law and Tax in their forthcoming Volume III of a se…
Delphi Final Round launch
Do UK Value Maps need the VOA? The emerging findings of my PhD research indicate that it may be best not to link value mapping with property tax reform, especially as there seem to be a number of indu…
Policy Options for UK Value Maps
Countries can 'do' value mapping without 'doing' land value taxation - so why not the UK? That's what my PhD research Visualising Landvaluescape: Developing the Concept for Britain seems to show. Down…
Completing the UK Land & Property Gazetteer
I wrote a paper Valuebill after Acacia: forward addressing! for the UK Association for Geographic Information (AGI) in June, suggesting a course of action to speed up the completion of the National La…
Delphi Round 2 - draft analysis
The latest in a series of papers on the subject of Value Maps for the UK - subject of a PhD at Kingston University. Download the draft Round Two analysis of 23 responses to a questionnaire about Polic…
Issue 4: Summer 2004
Fourth Issue includes link to my Lincoln Working Paper (with Stephen Mitchell) on the Land Value Effect of the Jubilee Line Extension of the London Underground Rail Network. It also presents the initi…
Global Value Maps Survey
If you are not from the UK, you have a chance to help develop Value Mapping (the mapping of property and land values) in Britain, by sharing your experience with others in the project described here r…
Where will the taxes come from?
The e-government Work Programme of the European Commission (EC) may wish to look at Value Mapping, if it can help identify a sustainable new source of taxation. As European population stagnates, its a…
Book "LVT in Britain" available
Lincoln Institute has now published "Land Value Taxation in Britain: Experience and Opportunities" by Owen Connellan, both on the Lincoln web-site and in hard copy, price $20 (+$6 p&p to Europe). As a…
Issue 3 (Easter 2004)
Diary date: 16 September, for Oxford conference on UK LVT & the role of Value Maps; also presentation of Oxfordshire LVT trial results Click here to Download file
Delphi Round Two form
Contribute to my research into the case for "UK plc" to undertake national Value Mapping Click to Download file then complete and return by email
Round One results
See what 29 stakeholders in UK Value Maps think of the idea: results of Round One of a Policy Delphi can be downloaded as a Word Document. Click here to Download
New Lincoln Book
PRICE CORRECTION New book published by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, author Prof Owen Connellan, contributors Prof Nat Lichfield, Dr Frances Plimmer & Tony Vickers Land Value Taxation in Britain: …
Issue 2 (February 2004)
The second issue of the Landvaluescape can be downloaded from this site as a Word Document. Click here to download.
Group Analysis
Composition of Delphi Group analysed at Download file
Issue 1 (January 2004)
Editor Tony Vickers writes: Welcome to my newsletter. You have either collaborated with me on research in the past, before I coined the word ‘landvaluescape’ or created the web-site of that name (wher…
Blueprint for Smart Tax
Download the full paper (also available on The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy website) In this third and final year of a research project to help prepare Great Britain for land value taxation (LVT),…
Visualising Landvaluescape
Download the full paper Developing a business case for Value Mapping Britain - a proposal to the RICS Educational Trust. There has been in the UK, compared to a number of other countries with a well d…
Mapping UK Property Values Today
Download the full paper This paper is one of three forming the foundation for a research project "Visualising Landvaluescape: Developing the Concept for the UK", leading to a PhD with the School of Su…
Councils Get Together Over New Tax
A study being carried out in Oxfordshire could provide an answer to the current debate over Council Tax, including the Audit Commission's report which concluded that fundamental flaws in the Council T…
From Zee to Vee
Download the full paper The underlying assumption is that there is such a thing as Landvaluescape, equivalent to landscape. By replacing the ‘z’ in a conventional 3D geospatial model, with ‘v’ (the va…