LAND TAXATION.
The Southland County Council recently discussed and answered a series of questions submitted by Mr W. Downie Stewart, Dunedin, who is collecting information for an American writer on taxation. The questions were : (1) Has the system of rating on unimproved values had any marked effect in discouraging the holding of land for speculative purposes ? (2) Has the system unduly forced people to part with land held for private gardens ? (3) Do you attribute to the system any alteration in the prosperity of the country ? (4) Has the system caused any appreciable increase in building or other improvements ? (5) Has the system caused buildings to be erected in advance of requirements ? (6) Do you consider that the system ' works equitably, and do you know any cases of hardship ? (7) Has it any effect in cheapening land or making it easier to get ? (8) Do ratepayers and the public seem satisfied with the system ? It was decided that the Council were of opinion that the system was inequitable, and that the questions be answered as follows : (1), (2) and (5), No. (4), It probably has in towns, (6) Inequality. (7) It has not cheapened land. (8) , Ratepayers appear apathetic
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3760, 14 March 1907, Page 2
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199LAND TAXATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3760, 14 March 1907, Page 2
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