Get In Touch About LVT

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This site provides a resource for individuals and groups promoting LVT. We welcome suggestions for additional material on the site. You can find out about us here.

Please use the form to contact us with corrections, comments, questions or suggestions.

Alternatively your can send an email letting us know who you are, where you are and why you are particularly interested in LVT.

Please pass on a link to this site to anyone who may be interested: landvaluetax.co.uk.

We also post daily on Bluesky.

Speakers/presentation

We are happy to provide speakers free for charge. This can be face-to-face (if within a one hour drive) or via Zoom.

Please contact us to arrange this.

A PowerPoint presentation is available for download:

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Let us know what you think

  • Disagree with us?

  • Hate the web site?

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  • Like it but …

Please, drop us an email, we will be really pleased to hear from you and we will do our best to respond positively.

How You Can Help

There are a few things you can do immediately if you support the implementation of LVT.

Tell your friends about it - point them to this site and ask them to pass it on. Add a post or a comment on X (Twitter) or Bluesky.

Look up your MP and send a short email with a couple of reasons explaining your support for LVT.

Talk about it down the pub or at the club. "Fairness" is the key thing to stress. Compare LVT with the unfairness of Council Tax.

Send an email to your local or national paper if anything comes up relevant to LVT.

Follow our Bluesky account, repost our posts and let your followers know all about us.

Add a link to this site (landvaluetax.co.uk) to your own site or your organisation’s site.

Let us know if you come across questions or objections not covered on this site.

Let us know if you have a cunning plan for how we can make LVT better known and understood.

Advice for supporters of LVT

Those opposed to LVT will deliberately misinterpret what you say and, under pressure, it is all too easy to say the wrong thing and the anti-woke brigade will drop on you like a ton of bricks.

If you give a talk about LVT or an interview, it is essential that you are on top of your brief - don't do it if you don't feel confident. This site will help your confidence - read it carefully!

Be honest if you face a question you can't answer - just say "I don't have the answer to that, but I will get back to you." It is better to admit ignorance than to dig a hole you can't get out of.

Stick to the core arguments: LVT is simple, fair and impossible to avoid. It is a positive first step towards a prosperous economy and a fairer society.

Stick to the knitting!

The first rule of business is "stick to your core business". Wandering off is a recipe for getting into trouble.

You may have an axe to grind: "free the badger", "help the hedgehog", "heat pumps for all", "trees are for hugging", "bury carbon", "clean up our rivers", "use wool for insulation", "stop fracking", "wild meadows reduce stress", "end grouse shooting", "tax the rich", "leave oil in the ground", "nail the Normans", whatever.

Some, or all, of these may be very laudable - but for heaven's sake - don't dump them onto LVT or they will become hostages to fortune, there will be endless arguments (a presentation on LVT becomes an argument about grouse shooting!) and nothing will get done.

Please don't do it!

  • LVT is a simple and elegant idea designed to provide funds for the services we share.

  • LVT permits no exceptions.

  • Turning LVT into something it isn't will destroy its simplicity, generate dozens of exceptions ("What about the poor grouse?") and enable tax avoidance advisors to laugh all the way to the bank.

  • Please don't make up advantages for LVT, or try to tweak it, or turn it into a variation of a property tax (land and buildings), to meet your special interests - that way lies chaos, confusion and yet more Daily Mail articles.

Permission

Permission is granted for anyone to use anything on this site for the purpose of promoting LVT. Please drop us a line if you use anything - it will give us a nice warm glow!

Resources

Books

We may not agree with the contents of all these but they provide a lot of current and historical background to the topic of land.

  • "Who Owns England?"

    Guy Shrubsole

  • "Duchyland"

    Mark Walters

  • "The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines That Divides Us"

    Nick Hayes

  • "Who Owns Britain"

    Kevin Cahill

  • "Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy"

    Chris Bryant

  • "Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History"

    Eric L. Jones

  • "The 1066 Norman Bruisers: How European Thugs Became English Gents"

    Helen Kay

  • "England, Arise: The People, The King and The Great Revolt of 1381"

    Juliet Barker

  • "People and Places: Country House Donors and The National Trust"

    James Lees-Milne

Free Flyers about LVT

Along with two of our associated groups, the Coalition for Economic Justice and the Labour Land Campaign, we have produced some flyers about LVT.

We can arrange for quantities to be printed and sent directly to you.

Things to think about

The penthouse above, at One Hyde Park (sold for £175 million) is in Council Tax band H and paid £1,421 in 2023/24.

We won’t insult your intelligence but we would be happy to write it if enough people wanted it!

The house above, 18-19 Kensington Palace Gardens, is in Council Tax band H and paid £2,844.80 in 2023/24.

About us

This web site is maintained by unpaid contributors from a variety of backgrounds and with decades of real world experience. We receive no funding from anywhere and we cover the cost of the site out of our own post-tax pockets. We welcome anyone with constructive ideas to contribute.

We are not affiliated to any political party or organisation, we are not a professional lobby group, “think tank”, foundation or institution.

We are a single issue group promoting the key thing we believe will lay the foundations for a fairer future and lead the way towards a more prosperous and happy society.

We recognise that taxes, in themselves, can’t solve problems. They can, however, redress the historical unfairness in our distribution of wealth.

Problems are solved by economic understanding, empathy, good policies, good laws, wise spending, firm regulation and sound management. All are absent at the moment.

LVT is not a panacea and we are totally honest about what LVT can and cannot do.

The motivation behind this site is to provide a comprehensive and clear resource for anyone or any group promoting LVT. We deliberately don’t go into the long history of LVT, or get side-tracked by long-winded academic papers on the subject. We want to get things done!

We want to know if this site isn’t crystal clear, if we’ve got anything “wrong” or if there is anything we can do to improve it. We love constructive feedback!

We are happy to answer any questions and to provide further information on request.

This site provides links to other sites for additional information and reference. However, landvaluetax.co.uk is not responsible for such sites and their contents may change, or even disappear, without notice.

We can also be found on Bluesky.