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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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Successful Property Tax Reform: The Case of Massachusetts
Educación a distanciaEnero 26, 2022Faculty: Karl E. Case, Jane Malme, and Ronald RakowThis 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.
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Transitioning Out of Capped Property Assessments
The Value Recapture ApproachDocumentos de trabajoAgosto 2023Carmela QuintosAssessment 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...
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Green Infrastructure, Home Values, Land Value Capture, and Equitable Property Assessment
Documentos de trabajoJulio 2023Jeffrey P. Cohen, Michael Dietz, and Yuchen HuangClimate 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...
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Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation?
The Coastal Barrier Resources System as a Natural ExperimentDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2023Hannah Druckenmiller, Yanjun (Penny) Liao, Sophie Pesek, Margaret Walls, and Shan ZhangAs 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...
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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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Measures of Vertical Inequality in Assessments
Documentos de trabajoAgosto 2022Daniel P. McMillen and Ruchi SinghStandard 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...
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Gestión y Evaluación de la Tributación Inmobiliaria en América Latina
Educación a distanciaSeptiembre 23, 2019Profesores: Cintia Fernandes, Ismael López Padilla, Carlos Orrego Acuña, Claudia De CesareSe examinan potencialidades, factores determinantes del desempeño del impuesto predial y principales tendencias en los sistemas de tributación inmobiliaria.
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Informalidad y Políticas de Regularización
Educación a distanciaSeptiembre 23, 2019Profesores: Adriana Larangeira, Gustavo Riofrío, Nora Clichevsky, Betânia de Morães AlfonsinReúne diferentes miradas del tema de la informalidad urbana con el propósito de ampliar la perspectiva crítica, tanto en la interpretación del problema, como en relación a las formas de buscar soluciones.
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