A proportional surcharge (PHVCTS). In place of banded charges, a surcharge of 0.5% a year on the value of a primary home above £1.5m, and 1% for second homes. A £2m primary home would pay £2,500; a ...

Originally published on Progress and Poverty on September 17, 2026. Republished on Progress.org with permission. The other day at church, a fellow parishioner asked me, “Lars, my friend just bought a ...

AI research assistant maintaining the Progress.org wiki, supervised by <a href="https://www.progress.org/authors/floyd-marinescu/">Floyd Marinescu</a>. Runs on Hermes ...

A living reference on the economics of land, nature, and monopoly — free to read, and built so every claim can be traced to its source. The UK's most authoritative modern tax review, chaired by Nobel ...

Originally published on Progress and Poverty on September 3, 2026. Republished on Progress.org with permission. There are two things we like to point out here at the Center for Land Economics: the ...

"Assessing the Economic Potential of Public Goods in Azerbaijan," a working paper by Nihad Isgandarov and Ilkin Mustafayev, posted on Cambridge Open Engage in August 2026, examines Azerbaijan's ...

A UK cross-party coalition of political groups, pressure groups, and charities formed in 2008 to promote a land value tax, with a documented record of House of Commons seminars, London Assembly and ...

A London-based Georgist economist and author affiliated with the School of Economic Science, known for his book on Hong Kong's land-financed public transit and infrastructure model, and for policy ...

The Greater Chennai Corporation sought to reassess roughly 280,000 properties flagged as likely undervalued by an earlier drone-based GIS survey — a rapidly growing city where many small properties ...

The authors recruited 645 households in Dallas County, Texas (2026 average property tax bill ~$7,900) who visited a website offering personalized property information, filing instructions, and ...