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News Release from: Newzeye | Subject: Land taxation
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 September 2005
Land taxation - to be or not to be
Major Conference in London on 12 October entitled - 'Kill or Cure? Will Land Taxation Deliver Development or Strangle it?'.
Land taxation proposals are currently being hotly debated within government circles The results of this will have major repercussion for the property development industry and for the UK economy as a whole
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 11 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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A major Conference in London on 12 October entitled - Kill or Cure? Will Land Taxation Deliver Development or Strangle it? - brings together leading figures in this debate from politicians, the property industry and academia to analyse the alternatives on offer and discuss the best way forward.
Among the speakers are: Liz Peace, chief executive British Property Federation; Yvette Cooper, minister for Housing and Planning (invited); Rt Hon.John Gummer, MP; Dave Wetzel, vice chair Transport for London; Michael Gunston chief surveyor, British Land Company plc; Yolande Barnes, director Savills Research; Jon Muellbauer, Professor of Economics Oxford University; Fred Harrison, Research Director, Land Research Trust; Ted Gwartney, Assessor, Town of Greenwich, Connecticut.
The Conference will be produced and organised by leading conference organiser and publisher Newzeye, which publishes the newsletter Property Forecast.
Developers, planners, landlords, investors, bankers as well as taxation and legal experts will all be seriously affected by land taxation changes in the future.
But will the government get it right? And if they don't, what will the repercussions be? This conference will answer these and many other questions as well as debating the advantages and disadvantages of more radical proposals that could eventually change the way major development is funded in the future.
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