Quote from: Richy_T on March 25, 2013, 07:06:49 PM

Quote from: Puppet on March 25, 2013, 05:26:41 PM

If you look at it as an investment today, yeah maybe; though much, much higher risk and potential reward. Land is probably about as stable as an investment as you can get while bitcoin is on the other end of the scale.

Land is actually a pretty shitty investment as, like with so much else, the government feel free to help itself to your wealth if you own any (unless you are rich enough to be able to indulge in tax dodges).

That land prices have risen reasonably in recent history is just one of those things and the link between this and the paragraph above may not be entirely unrelated to the government created housing bubble.

A government can create the legal basis to tax anything they like; including the gold in your safety deposit box or bitcoins.
So I guess your point is that investing in land is a poor way to evade taxes, legally or illegally?
Sure, bitcoin does look better in that regard.
Still I wouldnt worry an investment in land would lose 50% or 90% of its value in a short term. Something I cant say of bitcoin or many other investments.