Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence

Re:Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory... by scarmig on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:01PM (#27197623)

On the other hand, with Georgism the government needs to know how to assess land value. It does make those assessments now, but it's bound to become more politicized if all revenue is coming from land.

I also wonder if practices would emerge to make it impossible to know who to send the tax bill to.

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Re:Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory... by Turing_Machine on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:18PM (#27197894)

> I also wonder if practices would emerge to make it impossible to know who to send the tax bill to.

Well, you could just publish the list of taxes due and make it the landowner's responsibility to pay it, seizing the land if the taxes aren't paid.

I don't think the government would really have to care about who owns the land, as long as the taxes were paid, right?

Not advocating Georgism, necessarily. I just don't see this issue as being a real problem with the idea.

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Re:Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory... by closeparen on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:25PM (#27198027)

My condo is assessed as 50% land / 50% improvements. That would rather defeat the purpose of Georgism.

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