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Why do we persist in taxing the wrong sort of incomes?
Land and other natural resources are a free gift of nature and their economic value only arises from society’s combined need to use them, argues HEATHER WETZEL
FAIR TAXATION: Invercauld House dates back to the 13th century, it lies near Braemar and Balmoral Castles it is the seat of the chief of the Farquharson clan
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WHEN we talk about the rising costs of rents, mortgages, energy costs, public transport, food, etc, or exceedingly high bonuses paid to the bosses of our energy and water companies, huge payouts to shareholders of once publicly owned companies and the super-rich getting even richer, we are failing to recognise there is a feature common to all of them – natural resources.
Land and other natural resources are a free gift of nature and their economic value only arises from society’s combined need to use them. By accepting the private ownership of land, minerals, water, aggregates, oil, gas, the spectrum for mobile phones etc, we also accept the private ownership of natural resource wealth.
In England, the earliest taxes were on land and as landowners created and controlled Parliament, taxes were shifted on to work and production, leaving landowners to receive a continuous stream of unearned wealth as the economy grew.
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