Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A vacant lot stands along, surrounded by houses. Why is this land taxed differently then the developed lots? Experts estimate that ...

Known as a land value tax, the proposal falls in the same ballpark as a property tax, but instead of billing owners for the improvements they make to their property, it only looks at the assessed ...

Land -value taxes flip that formula, putting all or at least much more of the tax burden on land prices and away from the value of buildings. The concept has been floated for more than a century – ...