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1. How State Aid and Local Property Taxes Can Together Fund Quality Education for All Students

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2022
   By Allison Ehrich Bernstein, November 15, 2022

   Local property taxes and state aid each have flaws, but a thoughtful combination of these two revenue sources is the most effective recipe for funding a high-quality K–12 education for all...

2. 2023 Lincoln Institute Scholars Program

   Oportunidades de becas
   Enero 2023

3. How Property Tax Limits Shift Burdens to New Home Buyers

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2022
   By Will Jason, July 13, 2022.

   Produced annually. the 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study provides the nation’s most comprehensive analysis of local property tax rates by calculating the effective tax rate—the tax paid as a percentage of market value—for 74 large U.S. cities and a r

4. 2021 Lincoln Institute Scholars Program

   Fellowship
   Oportunidades de becas
   Enero 2021

   This program provides an opportunity for recent PhDs specializing in public finance or urban economics to work with senior economists.

5. Uneven Impacts

   The Pandemic, The Property Tax, and Municipal Recovery
   Revista Land Lines
   Junio 2020
   By Liz Farmer, June 16, 2020

   Local governments are still learning what the COVID-19 crisis will mean for their revenues over the next year. In large part, the answer will depend on what part of the economy they rely on for their...

6. Property Tax

   Fifty-State Study Shows Property Tax Inequities from Assessment Limits Continue to Grow
   Revista Land Lines
   Junio 2020
   By Will Jason, June 10, 2020

   In states with property tax assessment limits, disparities in tax bills between new and longtime homeowners continued to grow, according to the annual 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study by the...

7. Tax Battles

   Cities Seek Higher Payments in Lieu of Taxes from Nonprofits
   Revista Land Lines
   Marzo 2020
   By Liz Farmer, March 4, 2020

   At a recent rally in front of Baltimore City Hall, activists sang, chanted, and otherwise voiced their view that the city’s major nonprofit institutions weren’t “paying their fair share” of property...

8. Economic Development

   Vermont Attempts a Kinder, Gentler TIF—But Will it Work?
   Revista Land Lines
   Agosto 2019
   By Will Jason, August 20, 2019

   Vermont has enacted some of the nation’s tightest restrictions on tax increment financing, a common economic development tool with a less-than-stellar track record. Can these guardrails make TIF work?

9. Property Tax

   Fifty-State Study Details Growing Tax Breaks for Longtime Homeowners
   Revista Land Lines
   Junio 2019
   By Will Jason, June 25, 2019 

   In states with property tax assessment limits, tax breaks for longtime homeowners are growing at the expense of new homeowners, a new study shows.

10. A New Podcast

    Let's Talk TIF
    Revista Land Lines
    Mayo 2019
    By Anthony Flint, May 28, 2019

    Tax increment financing is one of the most widely used—and least understood—public finance mechanisms in the U.S. today. David Merriman, one of the foremost experts on TIF, talks about what communities and states can do to avoid the pitfalls.