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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Land Value Taxation

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:00 +0000

Includes 4 previously unpublished essays by 1996 Nobel laureate William Vickrey Hardly a day passes without some comment in the press on the adverse effect of taxation on some sector of the economy. Recent headlines include: Financial Services firms hit by VAT on outsourcing. Budget hits road haulage industry hard. EU tax threat to eurobonds remains unresolved. [Rolling] Stones cancel tour…

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Land and Taxation – 2nd Edition

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:00 +0000

You can now purchase this eBook as part of our Shepheard Walwyn Classics Trilogy bundle here… Economists know that the optimum conditions for private enterprise are achieved when taxes on the earned incomes of labour and capital are reduced to zero but, because neoclassical economic theory insists on treating land as capital, they dismiss the obvious alternative to taxing labour and capital…

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Public Revenue without Taxation

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:00 +0000

This book challenges the need for government to resort to all manner of taxes which restrict economic activity, killing the goose which lays the golden eggs. At the same time it undermines the integrity of the political process and spawns a lucrative tax avoidance industry. The author argues that not only does taxation flout the principle of private property, but it ‘is a primal cause of both…

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No Debt, High Growth, Low Tax

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:50 +0000

Governments around the world are wrestling with the problems of enormous debts, low growth, high unemployment and a gap between the demands of public expenditure and what can be raised through taxation. This problem has been acute since the financial crisis, but has been a hallmark of western economies for decades. Only a few countries have been able to avoid this pattern…

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