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The Adoption and Repeal of the Two Rate Property Tax in Amsterdam, New York
Documentos de trabajoEnero 1998Donald J. ReebThe two rate form of the property tax, a tax in which buildings are taxed at a lower rate than land, is an existing form of the property tax proposed by Henry George. The two rate tax has been...
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School Finance Litigation and Property Tax Revolts
How Undermining Local Control Turns Voters AwayDocumentos de trabajoEnero 1998William A. FischelThe use of local property taxes to fund public schools in the United States has been under attack since the 1970s as a result of reform-minded lawsuits. Court-ordered reforms typically involve a...
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A Methodology for Valuing Town Conservation Land
Documentos de trabajoEnero 1998Pamela J. Brown and Charles J. FausoldThis paper presents a methodology for rating existing or potential conservation land according to ten criteria weighted to reflect the needs of the local community in which the land is located. The...
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Land Value Taxation
Could It Work Today?Revista Land LinesMarzo 1998Dick NetzerDecades before Henry George made a passionate case for the "single tax" in Progress and Poverty, the classical economists had recognized that, in theory, the land value tax was almost the perfect tax...