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School Finance Litigation and Property Tax Revolts
How Undermining Local Control Turns Voters AwayDocumentos de trabajoEnero 1998William A. FischelThe use of local property taxes to fund public schools in the United States has been under attack since the 1970s as a result of reform-minded lawsuits. Court-ordered reforms typically involve a...
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The Continuing Redistribution of Fiscal Stress
The Long Run Consequences of Proposition 13Documentos de trabajoEnero 1998Jeffrey I. ChapmanThe paper begins to examine some of the long-run implications of the passage of Proposition 13—a significant California property tax reduction initiative that passed in 1978. The particular...
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A Methodology for Valuing Town Conservation Land
Documentos de trabajoEnero 1998Pamela J. Brown and Charles J. FausoldThis paper presents a methodology for rating existing or potential conservation land according to ten criteria weighted to reflect the needs of the local community in which the land is located. The...
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The Adoption and Repeal of the Two Rate Property Tax in Amsterdam, New York
Documentos de trabajoEnero 1998Donald J. ReebThe two rate form of the property tax, a tax in which buildings are taxed at a lower rate than land, is an existing form of the property tax proposed by Henry George. The two rate tax has been...
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Land Lines, May 1998
Revista Land LinesMayo 1998Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue looks at property taxation and land valuation methods used to generate public revenue in Korea, China, Singapore, and Vietnam; an assessment of Peru’s urban land regularization...
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Land Lines, January 1998
Revista Land LinesEnero 1998Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue highlights civic consensus-building around land policies in El Salvador; recommendations for grassroots education in Latin American cities; price volatility and property tax limitations in...
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Land Lines, March 1998
Revista Land LinesMarzo 1998Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue explores land prices and the broader land market and economic climate of cities and nations around the world; general principles and questions about the functions of land value taxation; a...
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Land Value Taxation
Could It Work Today?Revista Land LinesMarzo 1998Dick NetzerDecades before Henry George made a passionate case for the "single tax" in Progress and Poverty, the classical economists had recognized that, in theory, the land value tax was almost the perfect tax...
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Public Land Management
The Brasilia ExperienceRevista Land LinesNoviembre 1998Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, was inaugurated in the early 1960s as a "new city" that was to usher in a new era for Latin American metropolises, demonstrating how the government's efficient use of...
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Fiscal and Regulatory Instruments for Value Capture
The Case of Santo AndreRevista Land LinesSeptiembre 1998Jeroen Klink, Luis Carlos Afonso, and Irineu Bagnariolli Jr.In Santo Andre and all Brazilian cities, the value per square meter of land is fixed by law, thus hindering the capacity of the city administration to tax real estate property according to its market...
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