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Brian Romanchuk — Principles Of Canadian Municipal Finance (And Why A Land Value Tax Is Inferior)

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The fundamental question involves addressing economic rent.  The first step is determine whether and to what degree economic rents are involved in changes in land valuation.  Secondly, if so, how to deal with this is a manner that is socially, politically, financially, and economically feasible.  Thirdly, how to optimize this, given the tradeoffs. The funding of Canadian municipal governments is not normally thought of as interesting topic; even Canadian fixed income investors are not particularly excited about it. However, there are two side issues that are of general interest. The first question is: what happens to Canadian municipalities if the housing bubble pops? (As a spoiler, not very much.) The second question is the feasibility of a Land Value Tax (LVT) which is a

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The fundamental question involves addressing economic rent. 

The first step is determine whether and to what degree economic rents are involved in changes in land valuation. 

Secondly, if so, how to deal with this is a manner that is socially, politically, financially, and economically feasible. 

Thirdly, how to optimize this, given the tradeoffs.
The funding of Canadian municipal governments is not normally thought of as interesting topic; even Canadian fixed income investors are not particularly excited about it. However, there are two side issues that are of general interest. The first question is: what happens to Canadian municipalities if the housing bubble pops? (As a spoiler, not very much.) The second question is the feasibility of a Land Value Tax (LVT) which is a concept that gets some people on the internet very excited. I will then outline why a LVT is inferior to the Canadian property tax system (which is not that different than the American system for that discussion)...
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Principles Of Canadian Municipal Finance (And Why A Land Value Tax Is Inferior)
Brian Romanchuk
Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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