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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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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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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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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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Effects of Reducing the Role of the Local Property Tax in Funding K-12 Education
Documentos de trabajoNoviembre 2021Daphne Kenyon and Semida MunteanuBetween 1989 and 2018, while national reliance on local property taxation to fund K-12 education remained quite stable, 24 states increased reliance on the local property tax, while 25 states...
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Property Taxes
What Everybody Needs to KnowDocumentos de trabajoSeptiembre 2021Ronald C. FisherThe property tax is the largest single source of revenue under the control of state or local governments in the United States. Property taxes provide a fundamental fiscal foundation for all types of...
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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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Household Mobility and Local Government Finance in U.S. Cities
Documentos de trabajoFebrero 2020Wenjing Li, Matthew Cushing, and John E. AndersonIn 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...
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