Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la...
by AnimalMuppet on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:19PM
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Why is it one of the "healthiest" forms of taxation? And, why does the fixed supply make it healthy? That sounds completely unrelated. Can you explain?
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Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la...
by lbarrow on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:56PM
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When you tax something, you get less of it. By reducing the supply of a good, taxes deter otherwise mutually beneficial transactions from happening; the loss of mutual benefit from a tax (or other policy) is called "deadweight loss".
Land value taxes have a special property in that land owners cannot respond to the tax by producing less land; the supply of land is fixed. This means LVTs do not generate deadweight loss, which makes them very efficient: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#Efficiency