Toronto LVT Meetup with Chloe Brown & Floyd Marinescu
Wed July 3rd, 2024 at 6 PM
Firkin on Yonge (2nd Floor Lounge) - 207 Yonge St (Google Maps)
Agenda
6:00 - 6:30 General Chat & Intros
6:30 - 6:45 LVT in Canada — Floyd
6:45 - 7:15 Chloe + Q&A
7:15 - 9:00 Unconference: Topics selected by group for facilitated break-out discussions
Chloe Brown, Former TO Mayoral Candidate
Chloe is a Policy Analyst at the Future Skills Centre, where she analyzes public-funded workforce and labour market development programs, and a former mayoral candidate who ran on a platform which included land value tax, zoning reform, and community land trusts. She is one of the only Canadian candidates in modern history to campaign directly for LVT.
Floyd Marinescu, Common Wealth Canada
Floyd is the founder and funder of Common Wealth Canada, a think tank promoting land value tax and social dividends – to better share natural and publicly created wealth and address our housing, affordability, and productivity crises. This is funded from the proceeds of his business C4Media where he is CEO and co-founder, providing software development news and events serving 1.2 million online on InfoQ.com, and 8,000 attendees annually via QCon conferences in SF, NY, London, Beijing, Shanghai, and Sao Paulo. Floyd and the Common Wealth team also run UBI Works, Canada’s largest basic income advocacy organization producing content seen over 5 million times/month, and a network of 100,000+ advocates who’ve collectively sent 800K emails to all levels of government.
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What is land value tax?
Land value tax (LVT) is a levy charged on the value of land, without regard to buildings or improvements on it. Unlike taxes on income, productive investment, and buildings, which can discourage productivity, LVT does not distort economic activity and can encourage development. For this reason, it is often referred to as “the perfect tax”.
How can LVT promote a healthier housing market and economy?
By shifting taxes from work and productivity to land, we could fix the incentives that have made housing too expensive, curb speculation, promote sustainable development, and address the urgent productivity and inequality problems our country faces. Since land value is generated by the community’s investments around it, LVT ensures publicly created wealth is returned to the community, promoting a healthier and fairer economy for all.
To learn more, watch the following video by Affordable BC and read our article The Brief Case for Land Value Tax in Canada.
