Property tax
A Property Tax For Scotland
Author / Creator: Andrew MacNish Porter
Media type: Report
Date published: 2021
A replacement for Council Tax based on the actual value of owned land and property.
Reform Scotland’s Land
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Video
Date published: 2020
Land reform is a social justice issue. How can democratic decisions about the kind of country we want in the face of a small number of landowners?
A new housing settlement
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2020
There is so much wrong with our housing system, from needless homelessness to spiralling costs (which have shut a generation out of housing) to over-mortgaged homeowners struggling financially to the sheer environmental inefficiency of much of the housing we build to the failure to build homes how and where communities need rather than where a developer can make most money.
Resilient Scotland; Part Two
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Creating a resilient Scotland covers the next Scottish Parliament. It provides the detail of how the transformation envisaged can be achieved quickly, with a closer look at our economy, society and democracy.