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1. Nationwide Mass Appraisal Modeling in China

   Feasibility Analysis for Scalability Given Ad Valorem Property Tax Reform
   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2019
   Peadar Davis, Michael McCord, Paul Bidanset, and Margie Cusack

   Since 2003, the Chinese government has considered introducing an annual property tax, and while it selected six pilot cities for experimenting with the viability of a mass appraisal system rollout,...

2. Taxes and Economic Development

   An Update on the State of the Economics Literature
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2019
   Andrew Hanson

   There is a large literature examining the effect of taxes and tax concessions on local economic development, but the last comprehensive review of taxes and economic development was Wasylenko (1997),...

3. Residential Property Taxation in New York City

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2019
   Moses Gates

   This working paper sets forth the recent history and current structure of New York City’s residential property tax system, as well as large-scale inequities, possible points of needed reform,...

4. Recessionary Property Taxes

   Evidence from Maryland
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Andrew T. Hayashi

   Property taxes are often credited for stabilizing local government revenues during contractions, but this revenue stabilization can have destabilizing effects on households. In this paper I explore...

5. Designing Land Value Capture Tools in the Context of Complex Tenurial and Deficient Land Use Regulatory Regimes in Accra, Ghana

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Samuel Banleman Biitir

   Rapid urbanization has increased the demand for urban infrastructure services. Municipalities have attempted to finance infrastructure services with value capture instruments. The paper highlights...

6. Doing Bad by Doing Good?

   An Empirical Analysis of the Incentives from Informal Settlements’ Upgrading Programs on Urban Informality
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Cynthia Goytia and Guadalupe Dorna

   This paper has two different aims. First, we investigate the effects of informal settlements upgrading programs through a systematic review synthesizing the information provided by evaluations of...

7. The Tax Autonomy of Local Governments in the United States

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2019
   Andrew Reschovsky

   Statistics on the share of total government tax revenue raised by local governments provide an incomplete picture of local government taxing power. If higher level governments define the local tax...