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1. Designing School Aid Formulas to Achieve High-Quality and Equitable Education

   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2022
   Andrew Reschovsky

   This 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...

2. What Makes a Fair School Finance System?

   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2022
   Andrew Reschovsky

   This 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...

3. 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...

4. 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...

5. 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...

6. The Property Tax in Latvia

   System Structure and Current Challenges
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2020
   Sarmite Barvika

   The aim of this paper is to analyze the current state and trends of real property taxation policy in Latvia. Particular importance is given to the general statistical and historical overview of real...

7. 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...

8. Nationwide Mass Appraisal Modeling in China

   Feasibility Analysis for Scalability Given Ad Valorem Property Tax Reform
   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2019
   Peadar Davis, Michael McCord, Paul Bidanset, and Margie Cusack

   Since 2003, the Chinese government has considered introducing an annual property tax, and while it selected six pilot cities for experimenting with the viability of a mass appraisal system rollout,...

9. Household Mobility and Local Government Finance in U.S. Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2020
   Wenjing Li, Matthew Cushing, and John E. Anderson

   In 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...

10. Finanzas municipales en México

    Por qué unos municipios recaudan más y gastan mejor
    Documentos de trabajo
    Mayo 2019
    Mónica Unda Gutiérrez, with collaboration from Humberto Morones Hernández

    El municipio promedio en México se ha hecho más dependiente de las transferencias fiscales y no ha aumentado sus niveles de inversión. Sin embargo, la imagen agregada disfraza la...