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1. How Homestead Exemptions Can Counteract Regressivity in Property Tax Assessments

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2024
   Ron Rakow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

   Evidence 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...

2. Successful Property Tax Reform: The Case of Massachusetts

   Educación a distancia
   Enero 26, 2022
   Faculty: Karl E. Case, Jane Malme, and Ronald Rakow

   This course examines the deep problems of the Massachusetts property tax in the 1970s and the subsequent reforms that created one of the most functional and fair systems in the United States.

3. New Hampshire: Heavy Property Tax Reliance and Longstanding School Finance Litigation

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2023
   Semida Munteanu, Bethany Paquin, and Sydney Zelinka

   New 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...

4. Comparative Measures of Property Tax Equity in Suffolk County, Massachusetts

   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2022
   Ronald W. Rakow

   A 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...

5. 2019 Survey on the Use of Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) in Government Assessment Offices

   An Analysis of AVM Use, Acceptance, and Barriers to More Widespread Implementation
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2022
   Paul Bidanset and Ronald Rakow

   Accurate and consistent assessments are critical components of an equitable property tax system. Automated valuation models (AVMs) are programmed statistical and mathematical models used to estimate...

6. 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...

7. 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...

8. Geotecnologías Aplicadas a Políticas de Suelo

   Educación a distancia
   Octubre 8, 2018
   Profesores: Rosario Casanova, Julián Morales, Mario Andrés Piumetto, Everton Da Silva

   Tiene como propósitos difundir el potencial de las geotecnologías, demostrando como la aplicación de los SIG y los datos geográficos adecuados hacen más eficiente el uso de los instrumentos de gestión de suelo.

9. Fundamentos del Catastro Multifinalitario y Políticas de Suelo

   Educación a distancia
   Marzo 18, 2017
   Profesores: Carlos Basilio, Julián Morales , Mario Andrés Piumetto, Miguel Águila

   El curso busca presentar los conceptos básicos y el modelo de catastro necesario para una mejor gestión urbana en las ciudades.

10. 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...