Below is an extract from a recent blog post on our Ethical Economics website. To read the full post visit the blog here.

“Having been convinced of the efficiency and justice inherent in Henry George’s proposal for a Land Value Tax (LVT) to capture the economic rent, the author of No Debt High Growth Low Tax sought to find an example of where it was put into practice. As a frequent visitor to Hong Kong over many years, he became aware that its thriving economy, which had had to cope with housing millions of immigrants fleeing mainland China, was based on a system of leasehold, rather than freehold, land tenure. This means that a substantial part of government revenue is in fact raised from economic rent.”

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