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.

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

How a land value tax would help resolve Britain’s housing crisis
Jerry Jones : September 2008
PDF File : 88KB

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