Re:Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook
by chii on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:09AM
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LVT sounds good in theory, but a large number of rich people _are_ acting as rent seekers (they own property, and extract value via rents on people who work/produce actual value on it). It would not be politically feasible, unless the gov't is prepared to fight against those powerful land owners.
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Yes, the political feasibility is one big problem. (The other challenge is to figure out how much revenue you could raise---there are some good theoretical arguments that elimination a tax on something else like labour income should increase the local land value and thus land value tax by enough to offset that loss, but I don't know whether that works out in practice.)
There is some hope for the political feasibility: some countries already have land value taxes with various imperfections like Estonia, and some Australian states, and some counties in the US.