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1. Split-Rate Property Taxation in Detroit

   Findings and Recommendations
   Otro
   Abril 2022
   John E. Anderson and Nick Allen

   Collecting more taxes on fewer properties has created significant challenges for residents and investors in Detroit. This study covers subjects of central importance to the City of Detroit: tax delinquency, business formation, and property value effects.

2. A Deep Dive on South Carolina's Property Tax

   Complex, Inequitable, and Uncompetitive
   Otro
   Agosto 2020
   Project Manager: Daphne Kenyon
   Funded by the South Carolina Chamber Foundation and the South Carolina Realtors
    

   South Carolina has a property tax system that is unique among the 50 states. As this report shows, it is complex, nontransparent, inequitable, and noncompetitive.

3. The Property Tax in Latvia

   System Structure and Current Challenges
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2020
   Sarmite Barvika

   The aim of this paper is to analyze the current state and trends of real property taxation policy in Latvia. Particular importance is given to the general statistical and historical overview of real...

4. 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...

5. Improving Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for Economic Development

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2018
   David Merriman

   “This report will be the ‘go-to’ resource for public policy practitioners, municipal officials, and worldwide local development officers for two reasons. First, it is written by a...

6. 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?

7. Property Taxes for Local Finance

   Research Results and Policy Perspectives (Reconsidering Property Taxes: Perhaps Not So Bad After All)
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2009
   Ronald C. Fisher

   Although property taxes continue to be one of the fundamental fiscal foundations for local government in the U.S., they also remain exceptionally controversial (even among taxes). The political or...

8. The History and Purpose of Tax Increment Finance Policy in Wisconsin

   Do Wisconsin Tax Increment Finance Districts Stimulate Growth in Real Estate Values? Do They Contribute to Sprawl?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2007
   Russell Kashian, Mark Skidmore, and David Merriman

   Like other U.S. states, tax increment financing (TIF) is an important component of the development policy landscape in Wisconsin. While the guidelines for the use of TIF are similar to those that...

9. Assessing the Distributive Impact of a Revenue-Neutral Shift from a Uniform Property Tax to a Two-Rate Property Tax with a Uniform Credit

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2004
   Richard W. England and Min Qiang Zhao

   A number of economists have argued that a property tax with a lower rate applied to improvement values than land values is superior to a property tax with a uniform tax rate that yields the same...

10. Can Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Reverse Urban Decline?

    Documentos de trabajo
    Junio 2003
    Rachel N. Weber

    To counteract physical decline, local governments have increasingly relied on a redevelopment tool called Tax Increment Financing (TIF). TIF allows municipalities to designate an area for improvement...