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1. An Exploratory Overview of Property Taxation in the Commonwealth of Nations

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2005
   Riël C.D. Franzsen and William J. McCluskey

   This study provides an overview of the property tax systems in the 53 member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, as well as Zimbabwe (a member state until its withdrawal in 2003) and Montserrat, a...

2. An Exploratory Overview of Property Taxation in the Commonwealth of Nations, Appendix 2

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2005
   Riël C.D. Franzsen and William J. McCluskey

   Appendix 2 to Franzsen and McCluskey working paper also posted on this website.

3. The Community Land Trust as a Highway Environmental Impact Mitigation Tool

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2005
   Steven C. Bourassa

   The proposed Newtown Pike Extension in Lexington, Kentucky, has the potential to cause significant displacement of low-income residents. Following Executive Order 12898, which was signed in 1994,...

4. An Exploratory Overview of Property Taxation in the Commonwealth of Nations, Appendix 1

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2005
   Riël C.D. Franzsen and William J. McCluskey

   Appendix 1 to Franzsen and McCluskey working paper also posted on this website.

5. Equity and Efficiency Considerations in Use Value Taxation

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2005
   David C. Soule and Barry Bluestone

   Use value taxation is used in almost every state in the country to provide property tax relief to owners of farmland, forestland, and, in many cases, land available for recreational use. Created in...

6. Vacant and Abandoned Property

   Remedies for Acquisition and Redevelopment
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2005
   Lavea Brachman

   In June the Lincoln Institute convened a roundtable of experts from around the country to examine how and why property ownership and title problems exacerbate abandonment. The group debated the...

7. Urban Land and Housing Challenges in Brazil

   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2005
   Heather Boyer

   The Lincoln Institute has been collaborating with the Loeb Fellowship Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 1998. The Loeb Fellowship was established in 1970 through the...

8. From the President

   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2005
   Gregory K. Ingram

   The Lincoln Institute has long been involved in international activities that deal with land policy and land taxation issues. In the 1970s those activities focused mainly on training and education....

9. Connections Between Economic Development and Land Taxation

   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2005
   Jeffrey Chapman and Rex L. Facer II

   Recent court decisions have made economic development and tax policy front-page news. The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London raised a public outcry when it allowed local...

10. Faculty Profile

    C. Lowell Harriss
    Revista Land Lines
    Outubro 2005

    C. Lowell Harriss is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, where he taught economics from 1938 until his retirement in 1981. He then served as executive director of the Academy of Political...