Explore a bold case for taxing land value to reform a tangled tax system.
This nonfiction work argues for a single, scientific approach to taxation based on ground rents, showing how land value drives wealth and how reform might better fund government without overburdening workers or small property owners. The text builds a practical, data‑driven case for why land should bear the tax burden and how such a shift could reshape the economy.
- Understand the core idea: taxing ground rents as a direct, measurable source of public revenue.
- See how current taxes interact with land value, monopolies, and public works.
- Learn how rent-based taxation might affect landlords, tenants, and city planning.
- Examine arguments about whether such a tax can be shifted to tenants or must come from landowners.
Ideal for readers of economic reform, public policy, and historical debates on taxation, this edition clarifies a controversial method and its proposed benefits.