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Lars Doucet

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☦ Narcoleptic Norseman, Texan with Tourette's, Game design and Game theory, Mass Appraisal for the Masses
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Contra Watling on "The failure of the land value tax"

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By Lars Doucet
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There are many successful examples of land valuation and land value taxation, which critics don't engage with. Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester and widely seen as a potential challenger to PM Keir Starmer from within the Labour party, has been making a lot of noise lately about how land in the UK is significantly “undertaxed,” thereby bringing Land Value Tax (LVT) back into the UK news cycle.
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How do assessors value land right now?

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By Lars Doucet
| Substack
An interview with Thomas Holding, a veteran appraiser who has worked on all sides of the industry This is the latest article in the “Mass appraisal for the masses” series, based on an interview with Thomas Holding, an assessor from North Carolina I met at the 2025 IAAO Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. Among other topics, this series previously covered the early 20th century communal system for valuing land, the simplest viable method for valuing land, and how South Korea values land.
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UBI advocates should watch South Korea

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By Lars Doucet
| Substack
Cool 3D land value map by Jinsu Lee, obnoxious graphic design by me If you are a Universal Basic Income (UBI) or Land Value Tax (LVT) advocate, you need to be paying more attention to South Korea because that country may just be the biggest opportunity in the whole world for your movement. For UBI or LVT to succeed anywhere, they must first succeed somewhere. Progress and Poverty is a reader-supported publication.
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