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Earthsharing Canada is an economics think-tank advocating government financing by collecting "economic rent" rather than with taxes on jobs, business and sales.

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Land Value Capture makes Transit Self-financing

Letters: Tolls, Taxes: Globe and Mail: April 19, 2013 Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is right to forge ahead with Toronto-area transit upgrades, even over the complaints of parochial mayors. However, instead of new taxes and tolls – which will pit suburban dwellers against downtown residents and businesses – the new transit should be...

Pure Geoism

by Fred E. Foldvary, Senior Editor, 4 February 2013 Geoism is the social philosophy and theory of absolute human equality, with the belief that each person is properly and fully a self-owner and an equal owner of the surplus from nature and from communities. Human equality is the proposition that all human beings have an equal moral...

Tax reform badly needed in communities

There are two big problems with our property taxes: they are too high, and too low. http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2013/02/13/tax-reform-badly-needed-in-c... How can that be? Well, it’s because in Ontario, as across Canada, property tax is actually two taxes: a tax on land, and a tax on buildings. Taxing land value is fair, because a...

Video: Land Value Taxation and Public Infrastructure

Municipal governments should finance infrastructure by collecting the unearned income (economic rent) that accrues to land. No new taxes needed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdE1umKfyJA Warranted new projects (parks, schools, transit, roads, hospitals) always raise local land values more than the cost of the project. Presently this...

Monbiot: Why we need land value taxation

Why we need land value taxation. A Telling Silence www.monbiot.com By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd January 2013 You can learn as much about a country from its silences as you can from its obsessions. The issues politicians do not discuss are as telling and decisive as those they do. While the government’s cuts beggar...

Transit best financed through LVT

Dedicated transit tax runs out of gas fast. http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=190063 Car culture councillors would quickly vote down Adam Giambrone’s suggested 3¢ transit-dedicated gas tax (NOW, November 22-28, circulation 400,000). And even if it did pass, huge numbers of car people would tank up outside Toronto, driving...

A plan for “untaxing” the working class

Letter to the Editor: Increased transfer payments are not the best way to address Toronto’s grotesque income disparity, as Wayne Roberts suggests (NOW, October 4-10). Transfer payments are financed by taxing jobs, businesses and sales, which damages the economy by killing jobs, punishing successful businesses and raising the cost of...

CD Howe Institute endorses Toronto LVT plan

CD Howe Institute endorses Toronto City Councillors plan to capture land value capture to finance transit. Jeff Dean _______ Increase taxes along transit lines: National Post · Jul. 6, 2012 http://www.canada.com/business/Increase+taxes+along+transit+lines/689167... Toronto's "OneCity" plan, which city councillors will debate on July 11...

Long-stalled land tax bill back in discussion

The Finance Ministry is vowing to push forward the land tax bill, stalled for a decade, and may increase the tax ceiling, says the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO). Director-general Somchai Sujjapongse said the FPO is now amending details of the draft. Once the amendment version is completed, it will arrange a public hearing. The major...

Rein in real estate speculators

Toronto Star, Saturday, May 19, 2012 There’s really only one way to make Toronto housing affordable for everyone — including young families. But the City can’t do it alone; the provincial government will need to help out. Step one: the Ontario government would need to instruct the Municipal Property Assessment Corp.(MPAC) to...

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Study Group - The Economics of Justice, Resource Conservation, Innovation, Farming, Sprawl

Starting January 26th, 2013 at 1 pm for 10 weeks This is a series of presentations and discussions that will study fundamental economic principles and investigate the application of these principles... >> Read More

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