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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. 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study

   For Taxes Paid in 2022
   Otro
   Agosto 2023
   Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Minnesota Center for Fiscal Excellence 

   As the largest source of revenue raised by local governments, a well-functioning property tax system is critical for promoting municipal fiscal health. This report documents the wide range of...

3. Transitioning Out of Capped Property Assessments

   The Value Recapture Approach
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2023
   Carmela Quintos

   Assessment caps lead to inequities because the same growth limit is applied to high and low growth properties. For high growth properties that fall under the cap, the assessments are artificially...

4. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Vertical Equity App

   Bases de datos
   Septiembre 2023

   Vertical equity in property tax assessment requires that assessment levels remain consistent over the range of real estate values, with high-value and low-value properties exhibiting the same ratio...

5. Green Infrastructure, Home Values, Land Value Capture, and Equitable Property Assessment

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2023
   Jeffrey P. Cohen, Michael Dietz, and Yuchen Huang

   Climate change has necessitated innovative approaches to financing storm water mitigation in coastal communities throughout the world. We study how adding bioswales near residential properties in New...

6. Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation?

   The Coastal Barrier Resources System as a Natural Experiment
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2023
   Hannah Druckenmiller, Yanjun (Penny) Liao, Sophie Pesek, Margaret Walls, and Shan Zhang

   As natural disasters grow in frequency and intensity under climate change, limiting populations and properties in harm's way will be one important facet of adaptation. This study focuses on one...

7. 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...

8. 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study

   For Taxes Paid in 2021
   Otro
   Julio 2022
   Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Minnesota Center for Fiscal Excellence

   As the largest source of revenue raised by local governments, a well-functioning property tax system is critical for promoting municipal fiscal health. This report documents the wide range of...

9. 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...

10. Measures of Vertical Inequality in Assessments

    Documentos de trabajo
    Agosto 2022
    Daniel P. McMillen and Ruchi Singh

    Standard measures of vertical inequity suggest that assessments are regressive in the sense that high-priced properties are often assessed at lower rates than low-priced properties. Conventional...