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Nationwide Mass Appraisal Modeling in China
Feasibility Analysis for Scalability Given Ad Valorem Property Tax ReformDocumentos de trabajoAbril 2019Peadar Davis, Michael McCord, Paul Bidanset, and Margie CusackSince 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,...
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Taxes and Economic Development
An Update on the State of the Economics LiteratureDocumentos de trabajoAgosto 2019Andrew HansonThere 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),...
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Finanzas municipales en México
Por qué unos municipios recaudan más y gastan mejorDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2019Mónica Unda Gutiérrez, with collaboration from Humberto Morones HernándezEl municipio promedio en México se ha hecho más dependiente de las transferencias fiscales y no ha aumentado sus niveles de inversión. Sin embargo, la imagen agregada disfraza la...
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Residential Property Taxation in New York City
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2019Moses GatesThis 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,...
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Protestas fiscales en Colombia, 2011–2015
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2019Olga Lucía Zapata Cortés and Marco Fidel Agudelo CanoEntre 2011 y 2015 se protestó en Colombia a causa del incremento del impuesto predial, el cobro de la contribución por valorización para la financiación de obras pú...
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Recessionary Property Taxes
Evidence from MarylandDocumentos de trabajoMarzo 2019Andrew T. HayashiProperty 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...
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Designing Land Value Capture Tools in the Context of Complex Tenurial and Deficient Land Use Regulatory Regimes in Accra, Ghana
Documentos de trabajoMarzo 2019Samuel Banleman BiitirRapid urbanization has increased the demand for urban infrastructure services. Municipalities have attempted to finance infrastructure services with value capture instruments. The paper highlights...
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Doing Bad by Doing Good?
An Empirical Analysis of the Incentives from Informal Settlements’ Upgrading Programs on Urban InformalityDocumentos de trabajoMarzo 2019Cynthia Goytia and Guadalupe DornaThis 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...
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The Tax Autonomy of Local Governments in the United States
Documentos de trabajoEnero 2019Andrew ReschovskyStatistics 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...