29 MARCH 1913, Page 17

THE LAND TAXES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 is not only the landowner who is affected by these taxes, but the working man also. I happen to live near the outskirts of a large and increasing village, and have sold some twenty plots of land, from half an acre to two acres, to work- ing men who have saved money or to small retired shopkeepers to build cottages on. Some years I have disposed of three or four plots, but since the introduction of these taxes I have not sold a single plot, and have.not had an application for one.—