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1. Lessons from Attempted Utopia

   Fairhope, Alabama, and Arden, Deleware
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2004
   Matthew M. Harris

   The towns of Fairhope, Alabama and Arden Delaware were founded in 1894 and 1900 respectively. Both were intentional communities founded to demonstrate the economic principles advocated by Henry...

2. Training Indiana’s Assessors

   A Blueprint and Foundation for Reform
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2004
   Frank Kelly and Jeff Wuensch

   This paper reports on the current educational and training system for Indiana’s assessors, reviews necessary job functions and prerequisites, and summarizes their current qualifications. In...

3. Evaluating the Feasibility and Burden Shifting Impacts of a State Land Value Tax on Commercial and Industrial Property

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2004
   Mark Haveman

   In the most recent general session of the Minnesota state legislature, a bill was introduced to transition the commercial/industrial portion of the state general property tax into a tax on commercial...

4. Land Taxes and Revenue Needs as Communities Grow and Decline

   Evidence from New Zealand
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2004
   Suzi Kerr, Andrew Aitken, and Arthur Grimes

   New Zealand is unusual in that nearly 60% of local services are funded from property taxes. These are a mixture of land taxes, capital value taxes, annual rental value taxes and uniform general...

5. Policy Options for the Taxation of Agriculture Land and Agricultural Income in India

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2004
   Sebastian S. James

   This paper is a study of the policy options for the taxation of Agricultural Land and Agricultural Income in India at the levels of the Local, State and Central Government. This study has come to the...

6. Intra-Metropolitan Area Fiscal Capacity Disparities and the Property Tax

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2004
   Michael E. Bell, Lindsay C. Clark, Joe Cordes, and Hal Wolman

   The purpose of this study is to assess the extent of variations in the revenue capacity of select local governments in the Washington, DC area using the Representative Revenue System developed by the...

7. Essay on the Political Economy of Two-Rate Property Taxation

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2004
   Richard W. England

   This paper surveys the various economic arguments in favor of taxing land values more heavily than building values and then explores why two-rate property taxation has not yet been adopted in the...

8. What Politicians Know About Land Taxation

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2004
   David Brunori

   Supporters of land taxation view it as an efficient and effective means of financing government, and the concept has wide appeal among public finance scholars. Many economists, including several...

9. Regularización de la tierra y programas de mejoramiento

   Nuevas consideraciones
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2004
   Edésio Fernandes and Martim O. Smolka

   Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 2 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Durante las dos décadas...

10. Land Regularization and Upgrading Programs Revisited

    Revista Land Lines
    Julio 2004
    Edésio Fernandes and Martim O. Smolka

    Over the last two decades, and especially in the last few years, land regularization and upgrading programs have been implemented in informal settlements by central, regional and local governments in...