Articles tagged with land-tax

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What is the perfect land tax?

Get the taxation of property right and you significantly increase a country’s overall tax intake. Systems will need to evolve to fit today’s economic trends and behaviors.The ratio of property taxes to GDP varies widely globally, with the OECD average at 2 percent. Transactional taxes such as stamp duty focus on the owner and tax the value on transfer —...

26 Nov 2018
5 min