From greenwomble at gmail.com Sat Aug 1 13:32:08 2026 From: greenwomble at gmail.com (greenwomble) Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2026 13:32:08 +0100 Subject: [Diggers350] Burnham actively looking at LVT, to abolish council tax & stamp duty In-Reply-To: <1773655363.3987787.1785270732787@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1773655363.3987787.1785270732787.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1773655363.3987787.1785270732787@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: A subscription tax. Think about Ken Livingston. What a great left wing socialist guy! They must be ignorant though. Its simplistic thinking. Its the only thing that could explain why they made a toll charge on central London. With that only the richer the toffs the tops can afford to pay it. Making the roads there accessible for the rich but not for you! Land tax? Exactly the same. Land for those who can afford it. Not you. Monetise anything and you socially exclude. Think what would happen if the authorities decided to put turnstiles on the beaches to access the beach! This is why the left in former days demonetised basic education, playparks for kids, libraries, NHS and all the rest. If something is free we all get to access it. If something isn't free only a percentage get to access it. Life is gotten from the land. Land is Earth. Monetise earth and you'll socially exclude people from life. That happens when the coloniser land theft. Those are the ones of us roughly a perpetual 10% that are dying a slow stumped growth death. The poor. The poverty. Frank. On Tue, 28 Jul 2026, 21:32 Zardoz Greek via Diggers350, < diggers350 at gn.apc.org> wrote: > Land tax, ugh, forces owners to commercialise land to the max, degrade it > environmentally AND sell it to the usual hedge fund and billionaire > suspects. Just take a look at this: > Before you get TOO excited... > What is land value tax and could it fix the housing crisis? > https://www.weforum.org/stories/jobs-and-the-future-of-work/land-value-tax-housing-crisis/ > > > Burnham actively looking to abolish council tax and stamp duty > The Government is considering two options to replace council tax, with > more than 100 Labour MPs backing major reform... > July 26, 2026 > > https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/burnham-actively-looking-to-scrap-council-tax-and-stamp-duty-4669956 > The former housing secretary, Steve Reed, in his final Commons select > committee appearance before he was replaced by Angela Rayner, confirmed > that officials were looking at options for council tax and stamp duty > reform. > The i Paper has been told that Treasury officials were also looking at > their options for overhauling the way property is taxed ahead of Burnham > entering No 10 in order to brief the incoming government. > Two models are competing for support: a proportional property tax, which > would replace both council tax and stamp duty with a flat 0.48 per cent > annual charge on a home’s current value; or a land value tax – an annual > charge based on the value of the land a property sits on, rather than the > building. > The Prime Minister said his Government is facing “big decisions” about > council tax as he criticised the unfairness of the current system in an > interview with the BBC. > No 10 today denied the Government was “actively considering” replacing > council tax and stamp duty, before pointing out that any decisions on tax > are “a matter for the Chancellor to set out at fiscal events.” > Burnham has previously said he has “long been persuaded of the argument” > for reforming the system and has repeatedly called council tax “highly > regressive”, though he has stopped short of endorsing a specific model. > He has also been clear he will “stick to the fiscal rules”, which require > the Government to cover all day-to-day spending with tax revenues and > ensure that public debt is falling as a share of the economy. > It is understood the Chancellor will review all tax options ahead of the > Budget, with any decisions taken within that framework. > But pressure is growing from his MPs, with more than 100 – around a > quarter of The Labour Party – now part of groups actively advocating for > the system to be overhauled. > That figure includes members of the newly formed Labour MPs for Council > Tax Reform caucus, the Red Wall group of more than 40 MPs, and members of > the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Council Tax Reform. > It is understood that the Prime Minister was handed a policy document > outlining the case for council tax reform by supportive MPs in his first > days in power. > Pressure mounts from Labour’s northern MPs > Jonathan Brash, the Hartlepool MP who chairs the APPG, said: “Council tax > is one of the most unfair taxes in Britain, and nowhere is that injustice > clearer than in towns like Hartlepool.” > He pointed to the gap between a Band D home in Wandsworth, where residents > pay £1,020 a year, and a comparable property in Hartlepool, where the bill > is £2,556. > Many are pinning their hopes on Burnham being the prime minister to > oversee the change, with Jonathan Hinder, Labour MP for Pendle and > Clitheroe, saying that “a proportional property tax is an idea whose time > has come, for a leader whose time has come”. > Chris Webb, the Labour MP for Blackpool South, added: “We were elected on > a promise of change – our broken property tax system is crying out for it.” > The options for reform > > PROPERTY TAX > Two models are competing for support. A proportional property tax, > championed by the campaign group Fairer Share, would replace both council > tax and stamp duty with a flat 0.48 per cent annual charge on a home’s > current value. > Stamp duty is currently paid by homebuyers on purchases over £125,000, > rising to £300,000 for first-time buyers. Scrapping it would mean spreading > that one-off cost across an annual charge instead. > Fairer Share claims it model could save households in areas such as > Hartlepool around £950 a year, and would see around 75 per cent of > households better off. > > LAND VALUE TAX > A land value tax, a model Burnham has backed for well over a decade, would > work differently. Rather than taxing a home’s overall value, it would > charge owners based only on the value of the land it sits on, not the > building. > He first raised the idea during the 2010 Labour leadership contest, when > he argued a land value tax could replace stamp duty, which he branded “a > tax on the aspirations of young people” trying to put down roots. > In 2021, he said: “There is a really interesting discussion about how we > reform property tax. The party can’t tiptoe around it any more. Council tax > is bearing too much weight.” > Launching his Makerfield by-election campaign in June, he said he was > “personally keen to see reform of council tax”, branding it “a highly > regressive tax” and adding that he saw “a big case for land and property > and business taxation to be changed”. > Over that period, his argument has broadened from replacing stamp duty > alone to also covering council tax. But he has not set out a specific rate > for a land value tax, nor confirmed exactly how, or whether, it would > replace both taxes at once. > Allies warn reform could take years > But not everyone around Burnham is convinced reform can happen quickly. > Lord Blunkett, a Labour peer and one of Burnham’s closest allies, has > warned that a land value tax would be “politically problematic” and could > “dislocate the system” by creating winners and losers across the housing > market. > “It will not happen and cannot happen in the immediate future,” he told > The i Paper last week. “So there’s got to be a grounding of reality in > politics, as well as radical thinking in economics.” > Pressure could also come from a parliamentary petition, which passed > 100,000 signatures this week. > The petition, organised by Fairer Share, calls for an independent review > to be launched looking at the future of both council tax and stamp duty. > Passing that threshold means it will be considered by the Commons > petitions committee for debate. If it is selected, a Government minister > would be required to give a response. > That could hand Burnham one of his first parliamentary tests on property > tax within his opening months in office. > Decisions about tax are usually made at the Budget, due to take place in > the autumn... > > > https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/burnham-actively-looking-to-scrap-council-tax-and-stamp-duty-4669956 > > https://archive.is/w56Cr > Diggers350 - an e-mail discussion/information-share list for campaigners > in THE LAND IS OURS landrights network based in the UK > http://www.tlio.org.uk > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Land-Is-Ours-a-landrights-campaign-for-Britain/125281497524632 > > The list began eight weeks prior to the 350th anniversary of The Diggers. > They occupied land at the end of the English Civil war with a noble mission > to make the earth 'a common treasury for all'. In the spring of 1999 there > were celebrations to remember the Diggers vision and their contribution to > human freedom and what we now call social justice. > > SNAPPER TASH, ON THE HILL > http://www.youtube..com/watch?v=FWk9rRJsk5I > > THE LAND MAGAZINE > Subscription is £20 for three issues, although dates of publication can't > be guaranteed in present circumstances. Single copies are £6 including > postage, or £5 from shops. http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/shop (incl. > online ordering with Paypal) > Many articles online - and downloaded with pictures as PDFs for free. > All enquiries gill at thelandmagazine.org.uk > > THE SCYTHE SHOP (advertisement) > There is a revival of scything in the UK. Scything summer growth by hand > is usually quicker than using a strimmer, and there is no noise, vibration > or pollution. http://www.thescytheshop.co.uk/ > > Die Pride and Envie; Flesh, take the poor's advice. > Covetousnesse be gon: Come, Truth and Love arise. > Patience take the Crown; throw Anger out of dores: > Cast out Hypocrisie and Lust, which follows whores: > Then England sit in rest; Thy sorrows will have end; > Thy Sons will live in peace, and each will be a friend. > http://www.bilderberg.org/land/gift.htm > > Woe to those who join house to house and field to field, until there is no > more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land. Yahweh > of heaven's armies has sworn in my hearing: 'Surely many houses shall be > desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.' 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