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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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2024 Urban Economics and Public Finance Conference
EventosAbril 19, 2024Abby Ostriker, Anna Russo, C. Luke Watson, Nathan Seegert, Mark Skidmore, Camila Alvayay-Torrejon, Erin Troland, and Brent AmbroseThe economic growth and development of urban areas are closely linked to local fiscal conditions. This research seminar offers a forum for new academic work on the interaction of these two areas.
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New England Workshop for State Property Tax Oversight
EventosMarzo 25, 2024This meeting provides an opportunity for participants to consider the best means of assisting, training, regulating, and providing technical assistance to local assessors in collaboration with professional assessment organizations.
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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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2023 Journalists Forum
EventosNoviembre 17, 2023Partners: TD Charitable Foundation and Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard UniversityThe Lincoln Institute of Land Policy invited journalists to attend the 2023 Journalists Forum focused on housing affordability on November 17–18, 2023 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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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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2023 National Conference of State Tax Judges
EventosSeptiembre 21, 2023Speakers: Paula Randolph, Kirk Stark, Richard Pomp, Ned Chappell, Tom Hoover, Clint Bolick, Andrew Jacobs, David Brunori. Mark Juhas, Lucky Defries, and Kathy SpletterThe National Conference of State Tax Judges meets annually to review recent state tax decisions, consider methods of dealing with complex tax and valuation disputes, and share experiences in case...
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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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