Burnham warns a land tax would risk UK economy if rushed

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A land tax is unlikely to help the Labour left in its quest for higher public spending.(July 16): Incoming UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has been propelled into power by left-wing members of the ...

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Many like the sound of a long-standing idea that the former mayor of Greater Manchester has endorsed: a tax on land.\nThe policy has support on the other side of the political spectrum, too, among free-marketeers who agree it is the \"least bad tax\" - a description by their philosophical doyen Milton Friedman. Still, it's not an easy win.\nShifting such a large part of Britain's tax burden to land would \"so immediately lower the price of housing that it could actually bring about a financial crisis\", warned Charles Goodhart, a renowned economist and former rate-setter at the Bank of England (BOE). \"Most financial assets are collateralised on the basis of land,\" he said during a talk last month.\nFor more than a decade, Burnham has called for a land tax instead of Britain's council tax, paid on property values, and stamp duty, paid on home sales. Together these levies raise £75 billion (US$101 billion or $131 billion) a year for the UK Treasury so a land tax would have to match that amount.\nWhile Burnham has said little about his spending plans since locking up the prime minister's job in recent weeks, he has signalled a desire to find some space to raise revenue within the confines of Labour's campaign commitments not to impose broad-based tax hikes. \"We are going to have to work quite hard to make sure we can pay our way, and at some point that might mean having to ask for a little more, but those decisions are not for now,\" he said on the Goalhanger podcast on Wednesday.\n\nDan Neidle, a tax expert who specialises in British politics, recently endorsed Burnham's idea and said a land tax should also replace business rates. That would take the total required revenue to £110 billion, according to Office for Budget Responsibility data.\nNeidle acknowledged that the change would have to be gradual to avoid shocking property owners. Canberra, the Australian capital, is 14 years into a 20 year switch from stamp duty to land tax. The slow, incremental nature of the reform leads Neidle to doubt whether Burnham will pursue it with just two to three years until the next general election.\nGoodhart agrees. \"The transitional problems mean that the introduction of a land tax would need to be so gentle that it could not restore fiscal stability quickly,\" he said in an email exchange with Bloomberg. \"So politicians are likely to look for other more immediate sticking plasters.\"\nTom Clougherty, the former head of the libertarian Institute of Economic Affairs, said he supports Burnham's preference for a land value tax but that \"it is not realistic to raise much more from property taxes than we do at the moment\". He also argued there would have to be a \"phased transition\".\nLand taxes differ from property taxes because they measure the value of the land itself rather than the building on it. A new home or a property extension does not increase the land value so there is no penalty for development. Economists also argue that the tax captures unearned value created by public and private investment such as transport links. As land cannot be moved, taxing it is less likely to cause distortions than taxing labour and profits.\nNonetheless, a land tax is unlikely to help the Labour left in its quest for higher public spending. 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