Comment by antonymoose

23 days ago

I would love to know why it is unrealized gains is such a popular property tax strategy.

I’d love to know why people are happy with others making a fortune not through hard work, but through buying land and letting others hard work increase its value.

  • In the case of these pubs it sounds like they’re being priced out of the area through no fault of their own while trying to run an honest business so I don’t quite follow your logic here…

Rates are based (at least in principle) on the rental value of the building, making the gain concept irrelevant. The rent would be the same.