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1. 2024 Fundamentals of Municipal Finance Credential

   Cursos
   Mayo 13, 2024

   This four-day professional credential program provides a thorough foundation in municipal finance with a focus on urban planning and economic development in the United States.

2. 2023 Fundamentals of Municipal Finance Credential

   Cursos
   Mayo 8, 2023

   The Lincoln Institute and the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy are offering a five-day online course on the fundamentals of municipal finance for urban planners and others, May 8–12, 2023.

3. Introduction to the Property Tax–School Funding Connection

   Diciembre 2022

   Property taxation and school funding are closely linked in the United States. Forty-five percent of total public K–12 education revenues come from local governments and 80 percent of the local share...

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

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Febrero 2019
   David Merriman

   Tax increment financing (TIF) is a popular economic development tool across the United States, but it often falls short of its promise to revitalize struggling neighborhoods. In this four-page Policy...

5. A Guide to the Structure of Property Tax Abatements in the United States

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2002
   John L. Mikesell, C. Kurt Zorn, Esteban Dalehite, and Sung-Jin Park

   Property tax abatements—full or partial relief from property tax for certain property parcels—constitute an integral component of many state and local economic development programs....

6. 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...

7. TIF at a Turning Point

   Defining Debt Down
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2011
   Joan Youngman

   Tax increment financing (TIF) is the most important fiscal instrument for local development initiatives in this country. However, in many cases its growth has been accompanied by “moral hazard...

8. Financiamiento escolar e impuesto sobre la propiedad

   Revista Land Lines
   Febrero 2016
   Joan Youngman

   Algunos de los debates políticos más significativos acerca del impuesto sobre la propiedad no tienen que ver con el impuesto en sí, sino con el uso de su recaudación para...

9. Navigating State and Local Finance

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2007
   Kim Rueben, Therese McGuire, and Susan Kellam

   Ensuring sufficient revenues going forward, as well as having the flexibility to revamp fiscal structures, will be important for state and local governments, especially due to growing future spending...

10. School Finance and Property Taxes

    Revista Land Lines
    Febrero 2016
    By Joan Youngman

    Some of the most significant policy discussions concerning the property tax do not deal with the tax itself, but rather with the use of its revenue to support local public schools. This excerpt from...