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The Tax That Could Solve the Housing Crisis

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Re: The Tax That Could Solve the Housing Crisis

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$290/yr subscription fee in order to read an opinion article? How does one get the webarchive link?

archive.is - might redirect but it's fine.

Look for archived in second field but if not, use the first field which will process all the resources and assemble them.

https://archive.ph/WZiZf

Re: The Tax That Could Solve the Housing Crisis

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Encourage companies to pay a dividend and stop stock buy backs and housing prices will come down.

That wouldn't impact housing prices. From shareholder standpoint, there isn't much difference between dividends and stock buybacks. Stock buybacks can potentially reduce tax liability for some shareholders.

Re: The Tax That Could Solve the Housing Crisis

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This article is covered by the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast from 2022-06-13. Land Value Taxation, as opposed to property taxes. I didn’t quite understand the distinction.

Simply put, Land value tax is a tax on the unimproved value of land. It also can be thought of as _location_ value tax. Property tax typically includes both land value tax and the value of the improvements to the land - buildings, etc.

While they may sound similar, land value tax and property tax lead to vastly different outcomes.

Check out this Strong Towns video for an explanation about both taxes and how they differ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok2uR3btMrE

Re: The Tax That Could Solve the Housing Crisis

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I always link people unfamiliar with Land Value Tax to this book review of Progress and Poverty, the book which put the concept of a Land Value Tax on the map.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...

It's thorough, informative, and surprisingly funny for a book review.

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