The advocates of wealth taxation have overlooked both the impracticality and the immorality of their proposals
Empty upmarket properties are essentially parasitic, accumulating value thanks to the surrounding hive of activity while contributing nothing towards it
A Mansion Tax would force long-standing residents out of central London to make way for more of the super wealthy from overseas
JP Floru is a City of Westminster Councillor and is the author of What the Immigrant Saw and Heavens on Earth: How to Create Mass Prosperity So what are the “cuddly” Greens up to nowadays? Caroline Lucas became the only ever Green MP when she was elected for Brighton Pavilion with a 1,252 majority in […]
By JP Floru. It has nothing to do with Cameron riding horses or Osborne being the 18th Baronet of Ballintaylor and Ballylemon. Labour front men and women were and are from privileged backgrounds too: Blair was a boarder at the independent Fettes College; Harriet Harman has been called “a public school educated minor aristocrat”; Ed […]
By JP Floru. In the last two days, I twice heard anecdotal evidence of how the 50p tax rate reduces the number of jobs at the bottom scale of the ladder, and increases welfare payments. A person I met last night, a trendy West Londoner who at one time supported New Labour, explained how she […]
We might levy taxes on non-resident, non-British owners of property. But a crude mansion tax is not the solution to the South-Eastern property market problem.