Replace council tax with property levy
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:40:53 GMT
Replace council tax with 1% property levy - NIESR
Ashley Seager
Guardian
Friday January 27, 2006
The government should scrap council tax and replace it with a 1% tax on
the value of property, a leading thinktank proposes. Releasing its
latest quarterly economic forecasts, the National Institute of Economic
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economics book title...help...
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:30:37 +0100
somebody wrote a book comparing the breakdown of the various
sectors of strength in various economies by country and with general
background...and commentary...
i can't remember the author...or title...
anyone know the details?
this would be around 10 years ago....
very likely the sort of thi ...
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More wind than sense
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:26:49 GMT
Scotland's turbine army calls for new hordes of pylons
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/29/nbook29.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/29/ixhome.html
Do our ministers, one wonders, actually know anything about the monstrous
ranks of wind turbines that they wish to see festooning our countrys ...
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President Bush Exposed - George W.Bush Talks Straight ? (Must SEE + HEAR
SPEECH)
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:02:04 GMT
President Bush Is Talking Straight ?
A Speech You Have Never heard ! [ but should ]
Real Or Nightmare ?
http://www.jumpingpixels.com/george.html
Hear And See It @ www.JumpingPixels.com
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7/2 Society for Individual Freedom public talk: Dr Helen Szamuely
20 Jan 2006 04:23:42 -0800
The Society for Individual Freedom (http://www.individualist.org.uk) is
pleased to announce that its next guest speaker will be Dr Helen
Szamuely: "Out of the EU into the Anglosphere?"
Date: Tuesday, 7th February, 2006
Time: 6.30pm
Place: Westminster Arms (upstairs room), 9 Storey's Gate, London,
SW1P 3AT. ...
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The UK Housing Market in 2005
17 Jan 2006 05:06:10 -0800
http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/presentations/ukhousing2005/player.html
This free presentation provides a summary of key themes and data on the
UK housing market during 2005. It is particularly useful for students
preparing for the Housing Market option in AQA Economics.
http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/pr ...
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Seabed opportunity being lost
Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:30:01 GMT
Seabed opportunity being lost, claims consultant
13 January, 2006
AN historic opportunity to wrest ownership of the seabed from the
Crown Estate and to devolve it to local authorities is being missed
because of ignorance of their own powers in the Scottish Parliament,
according to a consultant commissioned by ...
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Obvious Question From Peter & Dan Snow's "Who Owns Britain?"
11 Jan 2006 01:28:59 -0800
Good show by Peter and Dan Snow on BBC 2 last night. They said that
about a third of the land is owned by a small number of "landed
gentry".
An obvious question thus arises: if Mr Average has to pay, say, ¡ê1,000
tax on his barely significant bit of land on a high density estate,
then how can the landed gentry ...
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Upcoming Event - Funding Infrastructure
Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:56:49 GMT
Upcoming Event - Funding Infrastructure
How are you going to pay for the vital infrastructure that your
community needs? Regeneration & Renewal presents, "Funding
Infrastructure," a one-day conference scheduled for March 28, 2006 at
One Whitehall Place, London (UK). The conference will focus on
"Forging Dynam ...
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UK Economy - the Last 10 Years
31 Dec 2005 05:49:08 -0800
On the last day of the year, a chance to take a look back over the last
decade:
http://www.tutor2u.net/newsmanager/templates/?a=914&z=1
Today's "Economics in the News" blog entry provides a twenty slide
powerpoint presentation on some of the key changes and trends in the UK
economy over the period 1995-2005 ...
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