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by dietr1ch 4 days ago
Not the same because it does not depend on utilisation. Pretty much everywhere you see property taxes, but vacancy taxes are a lot more recent and I guess rare so far.
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Redoubts 4 days ago
Arguably vacancy taxes are just Georgism with extra steps
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dietr1ch 4 days ago
If you wanted to switch to Georgism it seems that you'd need to add that and slowly shift taxes into just being the vacancy taxes.

Switching to Georgism overnight seems way too hard to execute.

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