Land Value Taxation

By Frank de Jong, 1 June, 2012

Long-stalled land tax bill back in discussion

Thailand plans to raise land tax to 2%

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 amendment is the tax ceiling rate. http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/296036/long-stalled-land-…

Under the current draft there are three tax rates depending on the purpose of land usage.

Systemic Fiscal Reform

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Location Value Covenants

SFR's proposals for collecting annual rental values without the pain, routing around the roadblocks, avoiding economic seismic events and of course in a politically achievable way.

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Land Value Taxation

The Aim of Liberal Democrat Action for Land Taxation and Economic Reform (ALTER) is: "To improve the understanding of and support for Land Value Taxation amongst members of the Liberal Democrats; to encourage all Liberal Democrats to promote and campaign for this policy as part of a more sustainable and just resource based economic system in which no one is enslaved by poverty; and to cooperate with other bodies, both inside and outside the Liberal Democrat Party, who share these objectives."

Land Value Taxation