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Article: Resourcing public revenue.
- Article from:
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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THE PROBLEMS AND issues identified in Chapter 1 and elaborated in the succeeding chapters are demonstrably real. They are not going away. Assuming a will to confront them, to what extent is remedial action possible? Is there any solution, or a complementary mix of solutions, which could resolve the central problem of "unjust enrichment" and all the consequential problems associated with private land value profits--and enable revenue for public purposes to be derived without recourse to taxes that penalise labour and enterprise and invite avoidance and evasion?
Some possibilities can be appraised and discarded. Draconian enforcement of town planning schemes could ...