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I must cite myself, because obviously after a few minutes of thinking I see a problem with my own words. The idea is interesting, but it would be still hard to exempt buildings and improvements in this case. Uh-huh. There was a XIX century economist, Henry George, that was a great supporter of...

I dimly remember a method used to determine value of taxed trade goods in one of medieval cities (perhaps it was a member of the Hanseatic League?): it was a trader that declared value of a trade good for purposes of a tax, but if authorities thought that it's a curiously low value, they had a...

Much better idea than taxing income and sales. Simple, hard to avoid. Strongly for, but as a replacement of income taxes. And while most taxes are destructive, LVT strongly incentivise building things instead of sitting on unused land.