Resolve the Land Fee Issue

[michalptacnik]

The Land Tax represents a consensual instrument of voluntary taxation. Liberland sets this instrument up using an adhesive contract mandated by the constitution. That means an arrangement where no negotiation is permitted, "take it or leave it"; most supplier-consumer interactions are adhesive. Hence, this is not unusual on the market. However, this is unusual in the Real Estate world and the world of Public-Private interactions because the governments of legacy states feel little need to keep their fees and taxes consensual; they legislate them and enforce them upon the people.

The main points of the Land Tax make it unlike normal taxation:

• there is no special tax bureau to enforce it;
• there are no privileged agents to do so;
• The Government will have to go to a Collection Agency;
• the proceedings from the sales of the property in question will mainly go to the owner, the Government; and
• only keeping the portion the owner must pay in Land Tax.

I would like to open the discussion about this institute here. The proposed motions are:

• further making this more standard by polishing "the rough edges";
• turning this into a "real property tax", whilst abolishing our uncompromising stance against involuntary coercive taxation;
• abolishing it whilst drafting in the Real Estate Law a "System Singapore." - in that legal world, Liberland is mandated by the constitution never to sell land, instead renting it;
• abolish the Land Tax without replacement, losing it as a revenue or land control method.

[michalptacnik]

The decision was to abolish the Land Fee as a constitutional institute. Indeed, demanding taxes is not what Liberland is about, in any form. That doesn't mean we will not have the Land Fee in law or any other way. The most interesting solution seems to be the "Singapore" model, by which Liberland keeps the ownership of the land but hires it out in a very liberal rent-out scheme.