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>LVT is unique that it doesn't reduce the thing it taxes because land is constant.

This may be technically true but the important thing is productive use of land. And that is as susceptible to tax influences as windows are.



And that's the idea behind LVT: it tries to separate the use of land from its naked value. The corollary is that LVT shouldn't hinder the productive use of land.


>it tries to separate the use of land from its naked value

Which is effectively impossible to do because in modern times the value of land is almost entirely based on the use of that land.


The surface level parking lots downtown are worth a lot more than their use indicates.




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