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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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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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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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Nationwide Mass Appraisal Modeling in China
Feasibility Analysis for Scalability Given Ad Valorem Property Tax ReformDocumentos de trabajoAbril 2019Peadar Davis, Michael McCord, Paul Bidanset, and Margie CusackSince 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,...
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Finanzas municipales en México
Por qué unos municipios recaudan más y gastan mejorDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2019Mónica Unda Gutiérrez, with collaboration from Humberto Morones HernándezEl 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...
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Land Taxes and Revenue Needs as Communities Grow and Decline
Evidence from New ZealandDocumentos de trabajoJulio 2004Suzi Kerr, Andrew Aitken, and Arthur GrimesNew Zealand is unusual in that nearly 60% of local services are funded from property taxes. These are a mixture of land taxes, capital value taxes, annual rental value taxes and uniform general...
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Transition to the Property Tax in China
A Dynamic General Equilibrium AnalysisDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2017David Dale-Johnson and Guozhong ZhuWe use the dynamic general equilibrium approach to examine the potential impacts of the introduction of alternative tax regimes in China. This approach models housing demand and supply based on the...
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The State of Local Government Pensions
A Preliminary InquiryDocumentos de trabajoJulio 2012Tracy M. Gordon, Heather M. Rose, and Ilana FischerState government pensions have attracted considerable media and scholarly attention. Less well understood are the nation’s 3,196 locally administered plans. This paper represents a first step toward...
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What Happens When a Large City Doesn't Have a Property Tax But Attempts to Enact One
A Case Study of Mesa ArizonaDocumentos de trabajoAbril 2007Jeffrey I. ChapmanMesa, a city with a population of approximately 450,000, is the largest city in the United States without a property tax. It has also grown very rapidly in the last 25 years, although now its growth...