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1. Designing Land Value Capture Tools in the Context of Complex Tenurial and Deficient Land Use Regulatory Regimes in Accra, Ghana

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Samuel Banleman Biitir

   Rapid urbanization has increased the demand for urban infrastructure services. Municipalities have attempted to finance infrastructure services with value capture instruments. The paper highlights...

2. How Differences in Property Taxes within Cities Affect Urban Sprawl

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2008
   Yan Song and Yves Zenou

   This article attempts a formal analysis of the connection between the differentiated property tax within urban areas and urban sprawl in U.S. cities. We first develop a theoretical model in which the...

3. Detroit and the Property Tax

   Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance Revenue
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore

   This report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base—a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform...

4. Rethinking Property Tax Incentives for Business

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2012
   Daphne A. Kenyon, Adam H. Langley, and Bethany P. Paquin

   State and local governments use many types of property tax incentives to increase business development. This report reviews those incentives, summarizes the literature regarding their effectiveness,...