Let's kill the mansion tax once and for all

The proposed mansion tax is a wealth tax, and wealth taxes are among the most pernicious and damaging of all taxes. The proposal is not to tax people for doing anything with a house such as buying it or selling it, but simply for owning it.

One of Adam Smith's canons of fair taxation is that it should be levied in a way that is convenient for the person paying it. A tax on rents should fall when the rent has been collected, he said...

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Summary

Dr Madsen Pirie writes on Politics.co.uk on the mansion tax. He argues that it is a wealth tax that is economically illiterate, damaging and divisive.