Your Citizen's Dividend (Anderson eBook)

What It Is

Your Citizen's Dividend: How to double your wage, dramatically reduce financial stress and improve living standards for everyone is a free 16-page advocacy eBook by Phillip J. Anderson (©2024 Property Sharemarket Economics), distributed via his citdiv.org microsite in six languages. It is the program statement behind the site: collect society's economic rent through a special-purpose vehicle (SPV) modeled on the UK Crown Estate, pay it out as a per-capita citizen's dividend, and phase out "all taxes... Every single one" (p. 8). Advocacy source: cited on this wiki to represent Anderson's own position (EDITORIAL source-hierarchy class 6), not as evidence.

The Argument, Chapter by Chapter

1. Government as wealth-extractor (pp. 3–4): a catalogue of state corruption and repression (1MDB, Saudi arrests, Chinese censorship) framing the pitch: "eliminating the need for governments, all taxes and all of our paid politicians is really simple to do" (p. 3).
2. The Domesday lineage (pp. 4–6): William the Conqueror's 1086 survey as history's model rent assessment; London's aristocratic estates (the Grosvenor 500 acres → Mayfair/Belgravia) as the private-capture counterfactual.
3. The Crown Estate as the working model (pp. 7–9): since George III's 1760 surrender of the royal lands, "all of the Crown Estate's Rents are returned to the UK Treasury" (p. 8), with the monarch's ~15% stipend recast by Anderson as history's first "citizen's dividend"; the eBook cites ~£330m collected in 2018.
4. The mechanism claim (pp. 10–12): "All of society's economic and social gains ultimately end up in land value" (p. 10) — an ATCOR-family claim, stated as fact where the wiki's own ATCOR page carries it as contested theory. Illustrations: Churchill's 1909 toll-bridge story (rents on the south bank rose by the amount of the abolished toll — see Churchill's land speeches); Big Issue sellers bidding for high-traffic corners; and the claim that a UBI funded from ordinary taxes "will... simply make the non-landowners and workers even poorer" because it capitalizes into rents (p. 11).
5. Q&A (pp. 13–16): Alaska's PFD (given as US$1,022/yr — a stale figure; see note below), Norway's GPF, Singapore/Temasek as "the special purpose vehicle created specifically for the task of collecting the entire Singapore Rent" (p. 13), Australian arithmetic (ABS total land value ~A$10.7T at March 2024, rent ≈ 5% ≈ A$535B/yr, plus Fitzgerald's resource-rents estimate), and Swiss-style semi-professional parliament as the end-state governance (with the eBook's own correction that Swiss parliamentarians are in fact compensated, p. 16).

Accuracy Notes (T1 scan, 2026-07-06)

• Stale Alaska figure: the PFD is given as "US$1022" per year (p. 13) in a ©2024 edition — verified against the PFD Division's historical payment table (pfd.alaska.gov, "Summary of Dividend Applications & Payments," retrieved 2026-07-10): $1,022.00 is exactly and uniquely the 2016 dividend (2015: $2,072; 2017: $1,100), so the eBook's figure was eight years stale at publication. Recent dividends have been substantially higher (2022: $3,284; 2023: $1,312; 2024: $1,702). The wiki's evidence on dividends lives at resource-rent dividends work.
• The Great Smoky Mountains study (pp. 11–12): the eBook's account of the Cherokee casino-dividend natural experiment (better schooling, less crime, fewer mental-health problems, poorest children benefiting most) matches the published literature's findings in direction; the underlying study is a genuine research-page candidate for the dividends outcome — queued in BACKLOG. [CITATION NEEDED: the primary study (Duke-team longitudinal analysis of the Eastern Band of Cherokee casino payments) — acquire and verify before citing specifics anywhere but this book summary.]
• "No paid politicians" (Switzerland): the eBook corrects its own claim in a footnote — Swiss parliamentarians are compensated (p. 16). Reported here as the eBook states it.
• The housing-shortage aside ("It isn't true," p. 6) contradicts the supply literature the wiki carries (Hilber & Vermeulen; Saiz) — noted as the author's position, unsourced in the eBook.

Why the Wiki Carries It

It is the most explicit popular statement of the SPV/Crown-Estate capture design — rent collection institutionally insulated from politics (Temasek as the exemplar) — which is a genuine design idea in the Geoism instrument space, distinct from tax-code instruments like LVT or the ACE. It also states plainly the advocacy version of claims the wiki carries with evidence gradings elsewhere (ATCOR; UBI-capitalization; the Alaska and Singapore models) — a useful, honest specimen of the persuasive case.

See Also

• Phillip J. Anderson — the author
• Citizen's Dividend · Narrative: A Dividend from Common Wealth
• Resource-rent dividends work — the evidence-graded version
• Sovereign Wealth Fund — the Norway/Temasek instrument family
• ATCOR — the mechanism claim, carried as contested theory

Sources

1. Phillip J. Anderson (©2024), Your Citizen's Dividend: How to double your wage, dramatically reduce financial stress and improve living standards for everyone, Property Sharemarket Economics, 16 pp. — used for all content above, page-cited (owner-supplied copy read in full 2026-07-06; quotes ≤50 words; the PDF itself is not committed to the repo). Free download
2. Karl Fitzgerald (2013), Total Resource Rents of Australia — used for the eBook's quoted resource-rents conclusion (advocacy, attributed; already on the registry via Geoism). PDF