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1. Improving Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for Economic Development

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2018
   David Merriman

   “This report will be the ‘go-to’ resource for public policy practitioners, municipal officials, and worldwide local development officers for two reasons. First, it is written by a...

2. Detroit and the Property Tax

   Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance Revenue
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore

   This report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base—a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform...

3. Use-Value Assessment of Rural Lands

   Time for Reform?
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   John E. Anderson and Richard W. England

   Use-value assessment (UVA) is the practice of valuing rural land according to its current use rather than its market value to reduce property taxes for rural land owners in the United States. This...

4. Rethinking Property Tax Incentives for Business

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2012
   Daphne A. Kenyon, Adam H. Langley, and Bethany P. Paquin

   State and local governments use many types of property tax incentives to increase business development. This report reviews those incentives, summarizes the literature regarding their effectiveness,...

5. Property Tax Circuit Breakers

   Fair and Cost-Effective Relief for Taxpayers
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2009
   John H. Bowman, Daphne A. Kenyon, Adam Langley and Bethany P. Paquin

   This report presents the rationale for providing property tax relief to those who have a high relative tax burden, compares the fairness of various criteria used by states for eligibility, and...

6. Property Tax Assessment Limits

   Lessons from Thirty Years of Experience
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2008
   Mark Haveman and Terri A. Sexton

   During the 30 years since California adopted its groundbreaking tax limitation measure known as Proposition 13, pressure has persisted for states to adopt various forms of property tax relief. These...

7. Why Tax Increment Financing Often Fails and How Communities Can Do Better

   Entradas de blog
   Septiembre 2018

8. Tax incentives for Amazon HQ2: when winners end up losers?

   Entradas de blog
   Agosto 2018

9. New England legislators and academics convene to explore solutions to state tax challenges

   Entradas de blog
   Junio 2018

10. How school funding in Arizona’s largest cities compares with other U.S. cities

    Entradas de blog
    Mayo 2018
    By Andrew Reschovsky