Friends meet to debate Land Value Tax
Friends debated Land Value Tax at Mount Street Meeting House in Manchester
Quakers gathered at Mount Street Meeting House in Manchester last week to discuss the benefits of Land Value Tax (LVT). Speakers on 1 June came from the Coalition for Economic Justice, Labour Land Campaign and the School of Economic Science.
Jocelyn Gaskell, who coordinates the Quaker LVT Group, told the Friend that the idea of LVT is that people and businesses pay a contribution for the benefit of investment in that land.
She said: ‘One thing that came out of the discussion is that we hope to emulate the involvement that Quakers in Scotland have had and to influence parliament.
‘Land reform is seldom discussed in Quakers, but once Friends look into it, they see what an important and undeveloped issue it is. LVT is a small part of the great big topic of land reform. We might not all be 100 per cent convinced, but Friends do see that the issue of land is a key area that needs more work.’
She said that two Scottish Friends on the Quaker committee supporting the work of Mairi Campbell-Jack, Scottish parliamentary engagement officer for Britain Yearly Meeting, came to the event; they ‘have been able to achieve a lot with other land reform campaigners in Scotland’.
The next step is to produce an information sheet sent out with a mailing to Meeting clerks before the end of the year.
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