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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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Composite Index of Local Fiscal Stability, Efficiency, Sustainability, and Livability
Central Eastern versus South Eastern European CountriesDocumentos de trabajoEnero 2022Aleksandra Maksimovska , Aleksandar Stojkov, Michal Radvan, and Tereza Rogic LugaricCitizen-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...
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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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An Examination of Sales Ratio Data and Sources Incorporated into the 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study
Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2020Bob DeBoerThe 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...
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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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The Property Tax in Latvia
System Structure and Current ChallengesDocumentos de trabajoJulio 2020Sarmite BarvikaThe 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...
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Special Assessment Districts and the Financing of Infrastructure in South Africa
The Innovative Use of a Special Rating Area in Claremont, Cape TownDocumentos de trabajoJunio 2020Willard Matiashe and Arthur GermondSince 2000, special rating areas (SRAs), also known as Special Assessment Districts and/or city improvement districts (CIDs), have been used to revive urban nodes across the City of Cape Town (Cape...
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