(Taken from LAND LAWTEACHING MATERIAL Prepared by DANIEL W/GEBRIEL and MELKAMU BELACHEW under the sponsership of JUSTICE AND LEGAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE)
Use and purpose of lease Lease is another means of land holing system. Lease may be of private or public one. For both the state and private individuals lease is a means of income for it is also another form of land market. The income from land lease has significant part in the over all GDP of a country in general and in the real estate transaction income in particular. In the absence of an effective land taxation system, one of the means by which local governments increase revenues is through public land leasing. There is evidence that land leasing has been happening on a large scale. Some countries secure a particular place for lease purpose. For example, the city of Sydney, in Australia, is a good example. In Sydney the only means of land acquisition is lease. They call is ground lease for the state or municipality, as the case may be, transfer the ground land by way of lease. In other words, to collect rent from transfer of land by way of lease, states may reserve particular land for this purpose. On the other side of the coin, lease is a means of acquisition of land. In industry and agriculture lease is preferable since the business may not be long lasting. Some times it is easy, if not cheaper, to get land by way of lease rather than purchasing. Eve the procedure, for example in Ethiopia, is shorter and easier than land grant for land lease policy is more responsive to demand of land supply. From private lease point of view, those who could not afford to buy land from the land lords had the only choice of leasing land.
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