This is where Common Weal is JUST DEAD WRONG. This is a BAD plan.

Why?

It taxes the poor crofter and the working farmer at exactly the same rate as the vast holdings of hereditary aristocrats and unscrupulous #Greenwashing kleptocrats.

There is no incentive to split estates into smaller holdings: instead, economies of scale drive expansion.

Any #LandTax MUST have a proportional element -- as #IncomeTax does -- so that the more land you hold, the more tax you pay on each hectare.

""the drop in scale of community
land transfers is very likely to be linked to
the rise of land prices in Scotland and the
speculative bubble that has been building over
the past several years. These are increasingly
linked to the rise of ‘Green Laird’ activities, such
as buying land ostensibly to engage in climate-
friendly activities such as rewilding and repairing
degraded peat bogs but which are often in
fact more closely linked to the ‘ #greenwashing’"

#LandReform

https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf

It needs to be said that this speculative bubble and the unscrupulous and the fraudulent '#CarbonCredit' nonsense underlying it has been consciously and irresponsibly driven by #SNP#ScotGov policies.

This is not JUST bad lairds; it's also really poor governance, and if you're still voting SNP in the face of this, have a long hard look at yourself. This policy hits Scotland, it hits the people of rural Scotland, and it benefits only the kleptocrats.

#LandReform
#ScotPol
#Greenwashing