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Designing School Aid Formulas to Achieve High-Quality and Equitable Education
Documentos de trabajoMayo 2022This paper describes the school funding formulas necessary to achieve five broad funding goals that have driven school finance policies over the past 50 years. After briefly summarizing the type of...
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What Makes a Fair School Finance System?
Documentos de trabajoMayo 2022This working paper explores the complexities involved in defining school funding equity and fairness. In defining what they mean by fairness, state policymakers must address several issues. The first...
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Split-Rate Taxation
Impacts on Tax BaseDocumentos de trabajoEnero 2021Zhou Yang and Zackary HawleyMunicipalities debating land value taxation or split-rate taxation need empirical evidence to understand how the transition of property tax regimes will affect their tax base. Using a valuable data...
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Split-Rate Taxation and Business Establishment Location
Evidence from the Pennsylvania ExperienceDocumentos de trabajoEnero 2021Andrew HansonThis paper estimates the relationship between business establishment location and split-rate property taxation. Using variation in split-rate adoption and intensity by municipalities across...
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Assessment of Property Tax Reductions on Tax Delinquency, Tax Foreclosure, and Home Ownership
Documentos de trabajoEnero 2021Fernanda Alfaro, Dusan Paredes, and Mark SkidmoreIn this report, we provide an evaluation of the impacts in Detroit of reductions in residential effective tax rates on tax delinquency, property tax foreclosure, and homeownership. The decline in...
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Measuring the Fiscal Health of U.S. Cities
Documentos de trabajoJulio 2020This 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...
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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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Household Mobility and Local Government Finance in U.S. Cities
Documentos de trabajoFebrero 2020Wenjing Li, Matthew Cushing, and John E. AndersonIn this paper, we examine how household mobility is affected by the choice of local government finance method (taxation versus debt finance) for U.S. cities. We develop a discrete time dynamic...
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Taxes and Economic Development
An Update on the State of the Economics LiteratureDocumentos de trabajoAgosto 2019Andrew HansonThere is a large literature examining the effect of taxes and tax concessions on local economic development, but the last comprehensive review of taxes and economic development was Wasylenko (1997),...
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What Drives the Property Tax?
A Holistic Examination of City and County Budgets in MinnesotaDocumentos de trabajoMarzo 2009Aaron Twait and Mark HavemanProperty tax levy increases are a policy concern for state and local governments nationally. It is conceptually appealing to examine state-level aggregate data to discern trends and explanations for...
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