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How Homestead Exemptions Can Counteract Regressivity in Property Tax Assessments
Documentos de trabajoMarzo 2024Ron Rakow, Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyEvidence presented in several recent academic studies using national datasets indicates widespread regressivity in property tax assessments. This can be due to statutory limits on assessment levels...
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Comparing Property Tax Disparities in America’s Largest Cities
Revista Land LinesAgosto 2023By Kristina McGeehan, August 16, 2023Produced 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.
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Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma
Resúmenes de políticas públicasFebrero 2023This 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–...
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New Hampshire: Heavy Property Tax Reliance and Longstanding School Finance Litigation
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2023Semida Munteanu, Bethany Paquin, and Sydney ZelinkaNew Hampshire does not levy a broad-based sales or individual income tax and therefore is the state most reliant on property taxes. In 1999, New Hampshire dramatically changed its system of school...
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This Simple Policy Tool Can Make Property Taxes Fairer and Ease Homeowner Hardship
Revista Land LinesDiciembre 2022By Jon Gorey, December 6, 2022A homestead exemption is a fiscally sound and equitable way to ease the property tax burden on residents.
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How State Aid and Local Property Taxes Can Together Fund Quality Education for All Students
Revista Land LinesNoviembre 2022By Allison Ehrich Bernstein, November 15, 2022Local property taxes and state aid each have flaws, but a thoughtful combination of these two revenue sources is the most effective recipe for funding a high-quality K–12 education for all...
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Mayor’s Desk: Cultivating Climate Resilience in Sierra Leone
Revista Land LinesNoviembre 2022By Anthony Flint, November 10, 2022Freetown, 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...
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Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma
Enfoques en políticas de sueloNoviembre 2022This report 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–school...
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Comparative Measures of Property Tax Equity in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Documentos de trabajoAgosto 2022A nationwide analysis of property tax assessments and sales data over a ten-year period, by Christopher Berry of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, found pervasive...
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2019 Survey on the Use of Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) in Government Assessment Offices
An Analysis of AVM Use, Acceptance, and Barriers to More Widespread ImplementationDocumentos de trabajoJulio 2022Paul Bidanset and Ronald RakowAccurate and consistent assessments are critical components of an equitable property tax system. Automated valuation models (AVMs) are programmed statistical and mathematical models used to estimate...
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