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1. Comparing Property Tax Disparities in America’s Largest Cities

   Revista Land Lines
   Agosto 2023
   By Kristina McGeehan, August 16, 2023

   Produced annually, the comprehensive 50-state report provides the most meaningful data available to compare property taxes among cities by calculating the effective tax rate: the tax bill as a percentage of a property’s market value.

2. Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Febrero 2023
   By Daphne A. Kenyon, Bethany Paquin, and Andrew Reschovsky

   This policy brief focuses on the roles of the local property tax and state aid in the funding of public education and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. A key theme is the property tax–...

3. El escritorio del alcalde

   Fomentar la resiliencia ante el cambio climático en Sierra Leona
   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2023
   Por Anthony Flint

   La alcaldesa Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr asumió su cargo en Freetown, Sierra Leona, en mayo de 2018, después de desempeñarse como jefa del Ayuntamiento de la ciudad de Freetown. La profesional de las...

4. Mayor’s Desk: Cultivating Climate Resilience in Sierra Leone

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2022
   By Anthony Flint, November 10, 2022

   Freetown, Sierra Leone, is one of seven cities around the world that have appointed chief heat officers as part of a global effort to invest in a climate-resilient future. Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr...

5. 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

6. Composite Index of Local Fiscal Stability, Efficiency, Sustainability, and Livability

   Central Eastern versus South Eastern European Countries
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2022
   Aleksandra Maksimovska , Aleksandar Stojkov, Michal Radvan, and Tereza Rogic Lugaric

   Citizen-centric local governance requires fiscally stable and efficient local governments that contribute to sustainable and livable communities. The central research objective herein is to provide...

7. An Examination of Sales Ratio Data and Sources Incorporated into the 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2020
   Bob DeBoer

   The 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study, jointly produced by the Minnesota Center for Fiscal Excellence (MCFE) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, uses sales ratios to more accurately...

8. Public Finance Concepts for Planners

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2006
   Randall Crane

   What should planners be taught about public finance? This paper has three primary goals: First, to revisit the proper facilitating roles of public planning in the private economy; second, to...

9. Measuring the Fiscal Health of U.S. Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2020
   Howard Chernick and Andrew Reschovsky

   This paper uses a specially constructed data base on city finance that accounts for the revenues and spending of the constituent governments that provide public services in cities—municipal...

10. Property Tax Delinquency in the United States

    Documentos de trabajo
    Marzo 2020
    Jenna DeAngelo

    How does a municipality create a property tax enforcement system that is revenue maximizing (property tax collection is as close to 100 percent as possible) but also fair (homeowners are able to...