SOUTHERN AFRICA: Namibian land tax may serve as model
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- Namibian reform record
- Tax basis and rationale
- Raise revenues
- Internalise costs
- Reduce inefficiency and underutilisation
- Increase land supply
- Moderate land prices
- Regulate foreign ownership
- Temporary reform tool
- Conceptual strengths
- Difficulties encountered
- Land valuations
- Determining tax rates
- Tax rate increments
- Farm information database
- Implementation costs
- Capacity concerns
- Resettlement sustainability
- Lessons from Zimbabwe
- South Africa's opportunity
- More complex farming sector
- White farmer attitudes
- Government mind-set
- Central versus local policies
- Meeting the funding gap
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