Dr Phil Day was a powerful and long-standing advocate for land value taxation, a modest form of which is retained in municipal rating of the unimproved value of land.
Land value taxation, if extended beyond the minimalist scale currently adopted, would have large implications for the setting aside of open space in developing localities.
Taxing Land Instead of Taxing Incomes, journal article in Progress, June 1987.
Relief for the Needy, Not a Gift to Their Heirs with Doug Tucker, 14 November 1988.
Submission to Industry Commission on Draft Taxation and Financial Policy Impacts Report, 17 December 1992.
Profiting from Land, Ockham’s Razor, ABC, 22 June 1993.
Land, Luddites and Lemmings – Address to Georgist Council of Australia Conference, 1 October 1993.
Correspondence with the Centre for Incentive Taxation, England, 24 January 1994.
Tax Reform: The “Great Adventure” or GST merry-go-round. Letter to Editor, 3 March 1998.
Correspondence to the Sydney Morning Herald, 4 March 1998.
Widen the Tax Reform Agenda, Ockham’s Razor, ABC, 26 June 1997.
Tax Reform, the Environment and the Reconciliation Process, 15 April 1998
The Political Economy of Land: Putting Henry George in His Place, 21 September 2004.
Resignation from the Henry George Foundation, 7 December 1999.
Phil Day wrote an informative summary of betterment taxes for the Department of Natural Resources in Queensland in 2002.
to be continued.
