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"Removing almost all business taxes, including property taxes on improvements, excepting only taxes reflecting the marginal social cost of public services rendered to specific activities, and replacing them with taxes on site values, would substantially improve the economic efficiency of the jurisdiction."William Vickrey, professor of economics and Nobel Laureate

 

Eight Nobel Laureates in Economics have endorsed a tax on land values rather than on production.

 

Recent News & Press Releases

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News Item Talking Taxes in South Philly
The Citizens' Budget Session Include two-minute videos. HGFA jumps into the mix...
News Item All Taxes Are Not Created Equal
 
Press Release Philadelphia's Budget Crisis: Everyone's Right
The Henry George Foundation knows that a land value tax can be an essential tool in helping Philadelphia get through the coming hard times and help ensure a vibrant local economy in the year ahead.
News Item Saturday morning with the land value tax - January 24, 2009
Join the staff of the Henry George Foundation for coffee and crumpets as we look at how exactly LVT will work, either as part of a property tax shift from buildings, or as a part of a budget-deficit plugging package. Data, maps and straight talk. Graphics will make what may seem like a dry subject come alive.
News Item Announcing a series of Classes on Why Our Economy is (not) Working
The theoretical underpinning of land value tax is based on a philosophy of economic justice and sanity that does not depend on the old assumptions of "left" and "right." Learn more at a series of classes on the subject of why land value tax is a unique and essential tool for any person or any government.
News Item Land Value Taxation – the Case for Right Now
Our Foundation has been researching and implementing land value taxation since 1926 Our experience statewide in research on the land tax and in issues concerning implementation is second to none. Currently 21 jurisdictions employ this program in Pennsylvania. We bring you a message from these cities and their officials: shifting taxes from buildings to land value works, is practical and should be done. In times of recession, with falling revenues from taxation of business and work, Philadelphia must eventually accept that a well-constructed real estate tax, based primarily on land value is a fair, stable and efficient source of public revenue.
Press Clip Tax and Mend
It may sound boring, but the LVT could help fix our economy.
Press Release Henry George Foundation offers Free Community Workshops
A powerful yet concise teaching module designed for involved citizens and civic leaders interested in understanding how land values are created, why population loss does not diminish expenses proportionately, what can be done to relieve the at-risk areas of the city from the confiscatory burden of taxation, and more.
News Item States Could Reduce Taxes for Most Taxpayers while Stimulating their Economies
23 brief summaries of empirical studies
News Item Slumlords - LVT could bring a resolution
"How, in the city promoted as Historical Philadelphia, home of Independence Hall where the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights was signed, has it been so easy for privileged speculators and slumlords to swoop in and violate our economic rights? It has been through the current property tax policy."
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