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Assessing the Distributive Impact of a Revenue-Neutral Shift from a Uniform Property Tax to a Two-Rate Property Tax with a Uniform Credit
Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2004Richard W. England and Min Qiang ZhaoA number of economists have argued that a property tax with a lower rate applied to improvement values than land values is superior to a property tax with a uniform tax rate that yields the same...
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Lessons from Attempted Utopia
Fairhope, Alabama, and Arden, DelewareDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2004Matthew M. HarrisThe towns of Fairhope, Alabama and Arden Delaware were founded in 1894 and 1900 respectively. Both were intentional communities founded to demonstrate the economic principles advocated by Henry...
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Training Indiana’s Assessors
A Blueprint and Foundation for ReformDocumentos de trabajoOctubre 2004Frank Kelly and Jeff WuenschThis paper reports on the current educational and training system for Indiana’s assessors, reviews necessary job functions and prerequisites, and summarizes their current qualifications. In...
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Evaluating the Feasibility and Burden Shifting Impacts of a State Land Value Tax on Commercial and Industrial Property
Documentos de trabajoEnero 2004Mark HavemanIn the most recent general session of the Minnesota state legislature, a bill was introduced to transition the commercial/industrial portion of the state general property tax into a tax on commercial...
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Urban Sprawl
Documentos de trabajoJulio 2004Thomas J. Nechyba and Randall WalshModern usage of the term “sprawl” was coined in 1937 by Earle Draper—one of the first city planners in the southeastern United States (Black, 1996). By the end of World War II, the...
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Intra-Metropolitan Area Fiscal Capacity Disparities and the Property Tax
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2004Michael E. Bell, Lindsay C. Clark, Joe Cordes, and Hal WolmanThe purpose of this study is to assess the extent of variations in the revenue capacity of select local governments in the Washington, DC area using the Representative Revenue System developed by the...
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Essay on the Political Economy of Two-Rate Property Taxation
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2004Richard W. EnglandThis paper surveys the various economic arguments in favor of taxing land values more heavily than building values and then explores why two-rate property taxation has not yet been adopted in the...
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Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens
LibrosNoviembre 2004Dan L. Perlman and Jeffrey C. MilderIn recent years, the practice of ecologically based planning and development has emerged as a way to safeguard human communities from natural hazards and to protect natural systems from the impacts...
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Land Lines, October 2004
Revista Land LinesOctubre 2004Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue looks at land use and design innovations in private U.S. communities; Harvard Design School Loeb Fellows’ observations of land use and streetscapes in Chinese cities; U.S....
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Land Lines, July 2004
Revista Land LinesJulio 2004Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue explores farmland preservation in China; the inadequacies and strengths of land regularization and upgrading programs in Latin America; balancing public values and fiduciary...
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