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Property Tax Delinquency in the United States
Documentos de trabajoMarzo 2020How 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...
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Place Database
Contest Winners Use Maps to Tell Stories of PlaceRevista Land LinesNoviembre 2019By Emma Zehner, November 15, 2019The winning projects from The Place Database Contest explored complex policy questions related to climate mitigation, affordable housing, and sprawl. The contest asked participants to use The Place...
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The Tax Autonomy of Local Governments in the United States
Documentos de trabajoEnero 2019Andrew ReschovskyStatistics on the share of total government tax revenue raised by local governments provide an incomplete picture of local government taxing power. If higher level governments define the local tax...
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Not by the Hand of Horace Mann
How the Quest for Land Value Created the American School SystemPonenciasMayo 2014This paper by William A. Fischel is an economic history of K–12 education and the structure of school districts. As the second part of the title suggests, Fischel argues that land or property values...
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The Future Role of the Property Tax in the Funding of K12 Education in the United States
PonenciasMayo 2014This paper reviews the role of the property tax in funding K–12 education. At present, local and state governments each contribute a national average of 44 percent of the funds spent on public...
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Metropolitan Cities in the National Fiscal and Institutional Structure
PonenciasAbril 2013Paul SmokeIn this paper, Paul Smoke points out that an important yet neglected issue in the study of urban public finance in developing countries is how urban and metropolitan governments are situated in the...
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Special Assessments in California
35 Years of Expansion and RestrictionPonenciasMayo 2012Dean J. MisczynskiThe use of special assessments in California is one of the longest value capture experiences in the United States. In this paper Dean J. Misczynski describes this instrument and related financing...
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Experimenting with Land Value Capture on Western State Trust Land
PonenciasMayo 2012Susan Culp and Dan HuntingThe use of land value capture to finance investments in state trust land is another potential extension of the concept. Traditionally, state trust land has been leased to private companies and...
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Interjurisdictional Competition Under U.S. Fiscal Federalism
PonenciasMayo 2008Sally WallaceSimilar to the decentralization of environmental policy, scholars and analysts also express concerns about the welfare effects of interjurisdictional competition on economic development under U.S....
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Public and Private School Competition and U.S. Fiscal Federalism
PonenciasMayo 2008Thomas J. NechybaThe traditional public school finance system under U.S. fiscal federalism has generated concern that the use of housing markets to ration resources and students to public schools may increase income...
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