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• Reference: 2013/0012-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 05 June 2013

Given the windfall gains that land and property owners benefit from when transport infrastructure is built, could a tax on those gains help pay for the infrastructure?

• Reference: 2013/0013-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 05 June 2013

Darren Johnson (Chair): We then move to item 4, which is the question and answer session on the London Finance Commission (LFC) and we welcome Professor Tony Travers, the Chair of that Commission, to answer questions. Each group has a lead-off question, but we will begin with a brief opening statement from Professor Travers.

• Reference: 2012/0218-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 24 October 2012

Should we shift the balance of taxation in London from income to wealth, for example with a land value tax?

• Reference: 2003/0120
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 March 2003

The Mayor has written that he wants to see an end to governnent tax concessions to the aviation industry (worth £8.5 billion in 2000); since according to calculations based on the July 2002 SERAS document and the DoT's price sensitivity test, the end of all concessions would reduce passenger demand in the Southeast to 135 million passengers a year by 2020, which could be met by existing airport capacity for up to 154 million passengers a year, would you accept that the end of tax concessions in the near future would remove the need for new capacity in the Southeast...