"Land in Scotland remains the largest store of untaxed wealth in the
country. This has negative effects not just on national and local budgets,
but is corrosive to social equality, democratic accountability and on local
economic and community development"

#LandReform
#ScotPol

(aside: I DO WISH people would not publish documents like this as PDF. It makes them so difficult to work with. Even MS Word would be better)

Continued: warning, long thread!

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

"More urban Councils benefit less from a Property Tax on land but this is
compensated for by their greater expected revenue from Property Tax
on buildings. Given that Council Tax is currently one of only a few taxes
(semi-)autonomously controlled by Local Authorities, applying a locally
controlled tax to land will give a greater degree of democratic control and
accountability to those Local Authorities"

#LandReform
#ScotPol

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