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Land Lines, April 2011
Revista Land LinesAbril 2011Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue looks at the performance of a special assessment tax used to finance urban development in Colombia; varied results of payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs) across U.S. municipalities; and the...
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Faculty Profile
Sally PowersRevista Land LinesJulio 2011Sally Powers has been a visiting fellow in the Department of Valuation and Taxation at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy since 2009. She was director of assessment for the City of Cambridge for...
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The Municipal Fiscal Crisis and Payments in Lieu of Taxes by Nonprofits
Revista Land LinesAbril 2011PILOTs are voluntary payments made by tax-exempt nonprofits as a substitute for property taxes, but their revenue potential varies across municipalities because of large differences in the impact of...
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Betterment Levy in Colombia
Relevance, Procedures, and Social AcceptabilityRevista Land LinesAbril 2011The betterment levy or special assessment (as it is known in the United States) is a “compulsory charge imposed by a government on the owners of a selected group of properties to defray, in whole or...
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Faculty Profile
Weidong QuRevista Land LinesAbril 2011Weidong Qu is a research fellow at the Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy in Beijing, and an associate professor in the Department of Land and Real...
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Implementing Local Property Tax Reform in Brazil
Revista Land LinesEnero 2011Omar Pinto DomingosThe property tax reform in Belo Horizonte was guided by the dual desire to eliminate distortions in its antiquated model and to introduce a new fiscal culture to support a permanent process of...
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Assessment Regressivity
A Tale of Two Illinois CountiesRevista Land LinesEnero 2011Assessment accuracy is the key to an equitable property tax, and statistical measures of regressivity are essential tools for evaluating valuation systems. Data from two counties in the Chicago area...