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Mall gets tax breaks; how much must it buy locally?
Newsday
July 24, 2012 09:00
A dispute between a local concrete manufacturer and a shopping mall shows how difficult it can be to push businesses that receive government aid for b...
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Writing the rules for smart cities
The Atlantic Cities
July 23, 2012 09:00
BARCELONA – City Councilor Manel Sanroma likes to take visitors to the oldest part of this Mediterranean port city for a local tradition called ...
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The struggle for urban space
Vitruvius
July 10, 2012 09:00
On July 9, 2012, , Paulo Henrique Sandroni, professor Foundation Getúlio Vargasin Sao Paulo and researcher at the Lincoln Institute of Land Pol...
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Small, green, and good
Boston Review
July 09, 2012 09:00
Growing up in a small town, I regularly took bus trips with my mom and little sister into “the city”: Syracuse. Like most middle-class fam...
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Tax breaks for big business is bad policy
Planetizen
July 05, 2012 09:00
So says the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, releasing a new report that says this all-too-common strategy rarely pays off. Report authors Daphn...
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Housing bubbles and homeownership returns
FRBSF Economic Letter
July 05, 2012 09:00
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis and the Great Recession, research has sought to understand the behavior of house prices. A feature of ...
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3D cadastre in the federal countries of Latin America
International Federation of Surveyors
July 05, 2012 09:00
Latin America is a vast region of the world, occupying approximately 15% of the Earth's land surface. The 20 countries that compose it have around 400...
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Memphis to explore asking tax-exempt entities to make payments
The Commercial Appeal
July 05, 2012 09:00
The Memphis City Council voted to consider whether nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations should be asked to make voluntary payments in lieu of tax. A...
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Report: property tax breaks to lure businesses largely ineffective
The Commercial Record
June 29, 2012 09:00
There is little evidence that property tax incentives to lure businesses to locate in cities and towns have much of an effect, either in the decision-...
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City aims to block properties' tax-saving maneuver in court
Iowa City Press-Citizen
June 28, 2012 09:00
The city of Iowa City is taking one of its own boards to court to contest the reclassification of a number of apartment properties to cooperatives, a ...
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The secret conservative war on zoning
The Atlantic Cities
June 27, 2012 09:00
The American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate lobbying group known for pushing the "Stand Your Ground” gun legislation that factored ...
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Tax exemptions - breaks for some, burdens for others
Yakima Herald-Republic
June 27, 2012 09:00
Every year, school districts around Yakima County struggle with finances, whether it's trouble winning voter-approved levies for maintenance and opera...
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The importance of the property tax
El Sol de Mexico
June 27, 2012 09:00
En lo personal soy partidario de fortalecer las facultades tributarias de las entidades federativas y de los municipios, regresando a las primeras pot...
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Property tax giveaways a popular, and flawed, business lure
The Boston Globe
June 26, 2012 09:00
IN TRYING TO maintain momentum in the Innovation District in the South Boston Waterfront, Boston has dangled millions of dollars in tax breaks in fron...
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A Housing Market Without Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
The Heritage Foundation
June 18, 2012 09:00
For decades, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac followed securitization policies that enabled Americans to make a low down payment when they purchased a house...
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Moving forward in Latin America
Habitation for the Planet
June 12, 2012 09:00
In terms of progress being made across the planet, Latin America is one region that can be commended from a certain perspective for its efforts to bro...
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Farm like a billionaire
Forbes
June 11, 2012 09:00
Billionaires Michael Dell, Donald Newhouse and Michael Price have done it. So, too, has former President George W. Bush. If you’ve got extra acr...
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Charity and taxation
The Economist
June 08, 2012 09:00
“IT MUST be borne in mind,” Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer told the House of Commons in his budget speech, “that in eve...
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Unsung Heroes
Saving Land
June 08, 2012 09:00
As Hurricane Irene tracked from the Carolinas to the Canadian border in August 2011, coverage in the media offered words and pictures focused on flood...
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3 annual property tax payments reduce delinquency
LaFollette School News
June 08, 2012 09:00
Property owners are less likely to be late with their tax payments if they made three installment payments a year instead of two, according to a new a...
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