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1. The Unit Approach to the Taxation of Railroad and Public Utility Property

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2013
   Gary C. Cornia, David J. Crapo, and Lawrence C. Walters

   Administering a property tax system presents ongoing challenges under the best of circumstances. Whether it involves keeping taxpayer rolls up to date, pursuing tax evaders, or updating taxable...

2. Land Value Capture and Justice

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Susan S. Fainstein

   In this paper, Susan S. Fainstein examines the arguments for using land value capture for distributive purposes. Her assertion is founded on Henry George’s idea that land value increments created by...

3. Town Planning Schemes as a Hybrid Land Readjustment Process in Ahmedabad, India

   A Better Way to Grow?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Bishwapriya Sanyal and Chandan Deuskar

   In India, local governments have increasingly relied on town planning schemes (TPS) to influence urban growth and to finance affordable housing and basic infrastructure. TPS is a hybrid land...

4. Community Benefits Agreements in a Value Capture Context

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Laura Wolf-Powers

   Laura Wolf-Powers discusses how community benefits agreements (CBAs) enable community organizations and special interest groups in the vicinity of a development project to negotiate with developers...

5. Airport Improvement Fees, Benefit Spillovers, and Land Value Capture Mechanisms

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Anming Zhang

   Airports may use land value capture as a funding source for infrastructure improvements. Anming Zhang explores the questions of how positive externalities generated by airports should be internalized...

6. Experimenting with Land Value Capture on Western State Trust Land

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Susan Culp and Dan Hunting

   The use of land value capture to finance investments in state trust land is another potential extension of the concept. Traditionally, state trust land has been leased to private companies and...

7. An Analysis of Alternative Revenue Sources for Local Governments

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2010
   David L. Sjoquist and Andrew V. Stephenson

   In this paper, David L. Sjoquist and Andrew V. Stephenson evaluate the property tax, local sales tax, and local income tax using a standard set of criteria, including efficiency, equity, tax base...

8. How Alternative Revenue Structures Are Changing Local Government

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2010
   Tracy M. Gordon and Kim Rueben

   In this paper, Tracy M. Gordon and Kim Rueben note that the revenue mix for local government changes frequently in response to economic shocks, policy shifts, and technological advances in tax...

9. Property Rights Created Under a Federalist Approach to Tradable Emissions Policy

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Dallas Burtraw and Richard Sweeney

   Property rights approaches can be employed to achieve environmental conservation. Two specific topics are examined here: tradable emission permits and conservation easements. The implementation of...

10. Land Value Taxation as a Method of Financing Municipal Expenditures in U.S. Cities

    Ponencias
    Mayo 2007
    Richard W. England

    To what extent could local governments employ land and property taxation to recoup a portion of these land values for financing local services and infrastructure? Richard W. England tackles this...