News
What's new on the UrbanTools web site, and what's news around the world in the effort to bring good tax policy into play.
New London, Connecticut and Land Value Tax: A Lively Debate in Local Media
The New London Day is continuing its editorial campaign for land value taxation.
Update on the Economy: Economic Statistics - Quarterly Data for U.S. Department of the Treasury
What's the sick sector of the economy? Readers of this site know...
Back to the Future: New Zealand and a (re)new(ed) national land value tax
The Tax Working Group has been commissioned to fix New Zealand's tax system, which has wilted in the face of global recession. Land Value Tax - at the national level - may be headed for a comeback in the land of Kiwis, the Great Moas and nice Sauvignon Blancs...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist: Time for Land Value Tax?
Like Philadelphia, St. Louis has a wage tax blamed for job loss and commercial exodus. Unlike Philadelphia, St. Louis is an isolated pocket in a generally declining part of the nation, losing as much if not more wealth and population to the Sun Belt than even Philadelphia, Hartford or Albany.
Monthly Economic Data from the U.S. Treasury
Where is the economy headed, no one really knows, but the US Treasury each month...
The Foreclosure Crisis: How it Hurts our Cities
Using the case of one house in foreclosure in Philadelphia, our sister site examines the implications.
CSE Submits LVT Study to Berlin, New Hampshire
The creator of UrbanTools, the Center for the Study of Economics drove through winter's frigid blanket of white to bring a new idea to a town that needs help.
Kansas City Here We Come
E. Thomas McLanahan wrote a very brave piece in the Kansas City Star, that will make both left and right unhappy.
Buffalo, NY and Land Value Tax
Those that are not content to let Buffalo NY die are pushing for a serious consideration of LVT.
Beginning of 2010 LVT News: DuBois Holds Firm
Last year, during the depth of the downturn, LVT-centric DuBois Pennsylvania lowered taxes on buildings and kept land steady. This year?
New York City: A Middle Class Losing Ground
New York City has been losing its middle class for years: to the Poconos, the Hudson Valley and Long Island. They were usally soon replaced, but that patterns seems to be stalling. Is this a wake-up call for New York?
End of Year LVT advances Part 2: Clairton, PA
Clairton debates land value tax: how high should we go?
End of Year LVT advances Part 1: Washington, PA
Most cities that use LVT are not increasing taxes this year. Some that are are doing so by raising the tax rate on land values. Good government requires it, but good government also requires cities being able to guide their own destiny on the expense end as well as the revenue end. In Pennsylvania, school districts and counties for the most part are unable to reform the property tax with the land value tax, negotiate sensible contracts, annex land and get rents/taxes from land values that are officially exempt.
Passings: Lowell Harriss
C. Lowell Harriss a giant of U.S. Economics and a man who liked a good joke.
CSE Vice-President Makes News on Massachusetts NPR
Albert Hartheimer magisterially lays out the case for land value tax in Massachussetts as a way to right-end the wobbly revenues of the Bay State.
Irish PM accepts need for national site value tax
Prime Minister Brian Lenihan is overseeing on the great fiscal and national meltdown in this latest round of boom and bust recessions. Ireland is casting about for structural solutions...
New London Connecticut Committee to Recommend Implementation Plan for LVT
Many towns and cities across the USA again have their eyes on New London, Connecticut as the city prepares its plan for LVT.
Site Value Tax to Help Victoria, Australia Town to Pay Bills and Rebuild
Out of the literal ashes of tragedy the Council of Murrindindi in Victoria state have resorted to a site value tax (the Australian phrase for land value tax) to recover from the Black Saturday fired on February 2009.
Didn't know that the Federal government has a land value tax?
You may be in for a pleasant surprise. UrbanTools has been following the happy saga of Federal land in National Forests rented for use by second-home owners. USA Today reports...
How Free is Free Parking?
As UrbanTools readers know, it isn't. The live and hidden costs of parking are well-illustrated by some of our New Zealand friends.
