Editing Land value tax (section)

===Liberal and Labour Parties in the United Kingdom===
In the [[United Kingdom]], LVT was an important part of the platform of the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] during the early part of the twentieth century. [[David Lloyd George]] and [[H. H. Asquith]] proposed "to free the land that from this very hour is shackled with the chains of feudalism."<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/landreform/lr200409200008.htm |title=A revolutionary who won over Victorian liberals |work=New Statesman |location= London |date=20 September 2004 |access-date=13 February 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060110135144/http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/landreform/lr200409200008.htm|archive-date=10 January 2006 }}</ref> It was also advocated by [[Winston Churchill]] early in his career.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://home.vicnet.net.au/~earthshr/winston.html |first=Winston |last=Churchill |title=Land Price as a Cause of Poverty |access-date=13 February 2009 |year=1909 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011217193137/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~earthshr/winston.html |archive-date=17 December 2001}}</ref> The [[Liberal Party (UK, 1989)|modern Liberal Party]] (not to be confused with the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]], who are the heir to the earlier Liberal Party and who offer some support for the idea)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://libdemsalter.org.uk/en/ |title=Action for Land Taxation and Economic Reform |publisher=Liberal Democrat ALTER }}</ref> remains committed to a local form of LVT,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liberal.org.uk/policies/planning.htm#public |title=Policy Statement – Planning |publisher=The Liberal Party |access-date=13 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129193739/http://liberal.org.uk/policies/planning.htm#public |archive-date=29 January 2009 }}</ref> as do the [[Green Party of England and Wales]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://policy.greenparty.org.uk/downloads/mfssld.pdf |title=Land |work=Manifesto for a Sustainable Society |publisher=[[Green Party of England and Wales]] |date=March 2000 |access-date=5 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908092903/http://policy.greenparty.org.uk/downloads/mfssld.pdf |archive-date=8 September 2008 }}</ref> and the [[Scottish Greens]].<ref name="scottishgreens">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3505928.stm|title=Greens unveil land tax proposals|work=BBC News|date=12 March 2004|access-date=22 December 2008}}</ref>

The 1931 Labour budget included an LVT, but before it came into force it was repealed by the Conservative-dominated national government that followed.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Land-value taxation: the equitable and efficient source of public finance|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=0-7656-0448-5|location=Armonk, N.Y.|oclc=40555854| last = Wenzer | first = Kenneth C. | year = 1999 | page = 163 }}</ref>

An attempt at introducing LVT in the administrative [[County of London]] was made by the local authority under the leadership of [[Herbert Morrison]] in the 1938–1939 Parliament, called the London Rating (Site Values) Bill. Although it failed, it detailed legislation for the implementation of a system of LVT using annual value assessment.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.landvaluetax.org/government-papers/london-rating-site-values-a-bill.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120225523/http://www.landvaluetax.org/government-papers/london-rating-site-values-a-bill.html |archive-date=2008-11-20 |title=London Rating (Site Values) — A Bill|access-date=22 December 2008|website=Land Value Taxation Campaign}}</ref>

After 1945, the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] adopted the policy, against substantial opposition, of collecting "development value": the increase in land price arising from planning consent.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}} This was one of the provisions of the [[Town and country planning in the United Kingdom|Town and Country Planning Act 1947]], but it was repealed when the Labour government lost power in 1951.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}

Senior Labour figures in recent times have advocated an LVT, notably [[Andy Burnham]] in his 2010 leadership campaign, former Leader of the Opposition [[Jeremy Corbyn]], and Shadow Chancellor [[John McDonnell (politician)|John McDonnell]].{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}