Property Tax – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

The Fair Tax

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:01 +0000

The tax regime in Ireland, Colm McCarthy points out in his Preface, has been very favourable to property owners, but especially to developers who, together with their banks, took maximum advantage. It fuelled the disastrous property boom with the huge development-site debts racked up by a handful of avaricious developers, and led directly to the Irish state having to shore up the collapsing banks.

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Re-Solving the Economic Puzzle

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:53 +0000

A finalist of Non-Fiction Category of THE PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE (2011/2012). In the richest nation on earth, people are mired in poverty. Food is produced on a vast scale, yet families go hungry. Homeless men and women huddle in doorways of boarded-up housing. A deep-rooted cause of this inequality, the author reveals, lies in an injustice that permeates the economic system of America and the…

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Ricardo’s Law

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:53 +0000

without a knowledge of [the law of rent], it is impossible to understand the effect of the progress of wealth on profits and wages, or to trace satisfactorily the influence of taxation on different classes of the community” David Ricardo This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of Tony Blair’s premiership and his Third Way project. It reveals the hidden flaw in the market economy…

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