Five years after advocating for land value tax (LVT), Lars Doucet reports that the idea has moved from online debate to concrete legislative action, with Virginia and Kentucky passing enablement laws in April 2026 that let municipalities adopt split‑rate property taxes, and similar efforts underway in Washington State and New York; internationally, the UK and South Korea have elected leaders who support LVT and Germany’s Baden‑Württemberg implemented a low‑rate LVT that survived a court challenge.
Doucet now argues that the ‘boring scut work’ of implementation precedes and drives broader consensus, advising advocates to focus on receptive officials, provide data models and clear one‑pagers, and pursue a ‘succeed anywhere’ strategy; to that end, his organization’s CivicMapper visualizes local land‑value concentrations in downtown cores, while the LVTShift Python library models revenue‑neutral shifts showing that vacant land and surface parking bear the biggest losses and median single‑family homeowners often come out ahead.
Revisiting the three classic objections to Georgism, Doucet finds that land remains a major driver of urban real‑estate prices, that LVT need not be passed on to tenants when modeled correctly, and that land value can be separated from building value using standard assessment practices; however, he notes remaining uncertainties such as the modest effective rate of the German LVT and uncertainty about how ambitious the new administrations in the UK and South Korea will be.