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Distributive Impacts and Support for Mass Transportation Projects
An Experimental Evaluation in Bogotá, ColombiaDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2018Alishia C. HollandWho supports mass infrastructure projects? Mass transportation infrastructure, such as metros and highways, is hugely expensive. But it also can deliver widespread benefits to users and windfall...
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The Effects of State Personal Property Taxation on Effective Tax Rates for Commercial Property
Documentos de trabajoJunio 2018Aaron TwaitCommercial properties have considerably different amounts of personal property as part of their total parcel value, depending on the nature of the business situated on the parcel. Given the...
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Is Progressive Property Tax Progressive?
Evidences from São PauloDocumentos de trabajoFebrero 2018Ciro Biderman and Yuri Camara BatistaThis paper uses an unusual opportunity to estimate the capitalization of the property tax on property value. In 2002 the city of São Paulo changed the property tax structure moving from...
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Improving the Property Tax by Expanding Options for Monthly Payments
Documentos de trabajoEnero 2018View a recording of a webinar based on this paper held on February 1, 2018. For roughly half of U.S. homeowners, the property tax is unlike practically any other bill or tax because it is paid in...
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Land Values, Property Rights, and Home Ownership
Implications for Property Taxation in PeruDocumentos de trabajoFebrero 2018Zackary Hawley, Juan José Miranda, and W. Charles SawyerThis paper examines land values and the associated property tax implications of formal property rights, informal property rights, and squatting. Using data from the Peruvian Living Standards...