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By: Language: English Series: Estates Gazette ; (0744) 3 November 2007, 81-82(2)Publication details: 2007Subject(s): Summary: Considers the future of the Government's plans to tax development value. Plans for a Planning Gain Tax have now been abandoned before its implementation. Questions the purpose of planning gain: whether to tax development value or to overcome local planning harm. Describes the Government's new plan of a statutory planning charge. Outlines its objectives: to finance additional investment; to simplify the planning charge setting; to provide fair means of securing contributions from developers for infrastructure; and to encourage positive planning by local authorities.

Considers the future of the Government's plans to tax development value. Plans for a Planning Gain Tax have now been abandoned before its implementation. Questions the purpose of planning gain: whether to tax development value or to overcome local planning harm. Describes the Government's new plan of a statutory planning charge. Outlines its objectives: to finance additional investment; to simplify the planning charge setting; to provide fair means of securing contributions from developers for infrastructure; and to encourage positive planning by local authorities.