Lars Doucet reflects on his 2021 writings about Georgism and land value tax (LVT), five years later. LVT has gained significant legislative momentum, with Virginia and Kentucky passing enablement laws in 2024, while LVT-friendly leaders were elected in the UK and South Korea. Doucet now works for the Center for Land Economics and discusses the outlook for LVT policy expansion in 2026.
Lars Doucet reflects on his five-year-old writings on Georgism and land value taxes (LVT), noting increased legislative momentum including recent LVT enablement laws in Virginia and Kentucky, and the election of LVT-friendly leaders in the UK and South Korea. He now works for the Center for Land Economics and tracks ongoing efforts to implement split-rate property taxes across U.S. states.