Papers and articles
Academic and other research papers which may be of interest to those working and campaigning in the field of land and tax reform.
In Land Revenue : The case for a Land Value Tax in the UK
Andy Hull : May 2013
PDF File : 295KB
How a land value tax would help resolve Britain’s housing crisis
Jerry Jones : September 2008 [updated Nov 2012]
PDF File : 88KB
Submission to the National Independent Inquiry into the Affordable Homes Crisis
Labour Land Campaign : March 2012
PDF File : 50KB
The Taxation of Land and Property (Ch.16)
Mirrlees Review : November 2010
PDF File : 1.7MB
A Land Value Tax for Scotland
Andy Wightman : October 2010
PDF File : 4MB
An Alternative Vision for the Land Registry
Public and Commercial Services Union : October 2009
PDF File : 7.7MB
The Cuts - Red Papers
Left Economics Advisory Panel : December 2009
PDF File : 368KB
China’s Gift To The World - the Missing Economic Policy for Sustainable Development
Dave Wetzel : July 2009
PDF File : 35KB
Don't Bet the House On It - No turning back to housing boom and bust
Toby Lloyd : April 2009
PDF File : 585KB
Land Value... for public benefit
Jerry Jones : September 2008
PDF File : 282KB
Who own's Britain's land?
Jerry Jones : September 2008
PDF File : 56KB
A Hard Landing for Virtual War - Iraq, Land and Insurgency
Dr Jonathan Mendel : July 2008
PDF File : 277KB
The Lyons Report - Labour Land Campaign commentary
Comments on chapters 6, 7 & 8 (passages on LVT, property tax and business rates) : May 2007
PDF File : 65KB
The Lyons Report - highlights
Chapter 6, 7 & 8 (passages on LVT, property tax and business rates) : March 2007
PDF File
: 159KB
The Lyons Report
Chapter 6 : Funding Reform - an introduction (in full) : March 2007
PDF File : 163KB
A new political economy
Compass : January 2007
PDF File : 563KB
A strategy for introducing a Land Value Tax in Britain
Jerry Jones : August 2006
PDF File : 205KB
Land Value Taxation
Carol Wilcox : September 2005
PDF File : 86KB
The Oxfordshire Land Value Tax Study
Oxfordshire County Council & Vale of White Horse District Council
: February 2005
PDF File : 1.3MB
New partnerships in affordable housing
National Housing Federation : January 2005
PDF File : 347KB
Land tax - options for reform
Professor Iain McLean : June 2004
PDF file : 126KB
Not by spending alone - the case for a comprehensive tax review
Dr Rana Roy : June 2004
PDF file : 0.6MB
LVT - An Investigation into Practical Planning and Valuation Problems
Greg McGill and Francis Plimmer : May 2004
PDF file : 83KB
Land & Property Value Study - Assessing the Change in Land & Property Values Attributable to the Jubilee Line Extension
Jones Lang LaSalle : February 2004
PDF file : 1.5MB
From Zee to Vee : using property tax assessments to monitor the economic landscape
Tony Vickers : April 2002
PDF File : 162KB
Methods used to value land
Ted Gwartney : July 1999
PDF File : 133KB
Labour's flawed Land Acts 1947-76
Vic Blundell : August 1993
PDF File : 127KB
Enquiry Committees and Land Value Rating 1952-76
Vic Blundell : August 1993
PDF File : 102KB
Dear Mr Gorbachev : An Open Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev
30 American economists : November 1990
PDF File : 44KB
London Rating (Site Values) - Bill presented by Herbert Morrison, et al
UK Parliamentary Bill : 1938-9
PDF File : 288KB
[with thanks to Land Value Taxation Campaign]
1931 Finance Act / Philip Snowden Act
Land Value sections : House of Lords Library
PDF File : 2.7MB