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1. New England Workshop for State Property Tax Oversight

   Eventos
   Marzo 25, 2024

   This meeting provides an opportunity for participants to consider the best means of assisting, training, regulating, and providing technical assistance to local assessors in collaboration with professional assessment organizations.

2. Strengthening the Local Property Tax

   The Need for a Property Tax Expenditure Budget
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2011
   Katrina D. Connolly and Michael E. Bell

   The property tax is the most important source of local revenue. But while it is widely believed to be fair, efficient, and simple to administer, in practice it has begun to drift from these ideals....

3. Property Taxes for Local Finance

   Research Results and Policy Perspectives (Reconsidering Property Taxes: Perhaps Not So Bad After All)
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2009
   Ronald C. Fisher

   Although property taxes continue to be one of the fundamental fiscal foundations for local government in the U.S., they also remain exceptionally controversial (even among taxes). The political or...

4. Land Value Taxation for Local Government Finance in the Russian Federation

   A Case Study of Saratov Oblast
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2006
   John L. Mikesell, C. Kurt Zorn, Valentina Guerasimova, Svetlana Vladimirova, and Olha Krupa

   As the Russian Federation restructures its local government finances to provide greater local fiscal autonomy, it is changing the way it taxes land. Instead of using normative measures such as area...

5. The Influence of Local Fiscal Structure and Growth Control Choices on “Big Box” Urban Sprawl in the American West

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2002
   Robert W. Wassmer

   Is the amount of total retail sales and two forms of “big box” retail (auto and home improvement) sales that occur outside of a western United States metropolitan area’s central...

6. Prospects for Land Rent Taxes in State and Local Tax Reforms

   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2001
   Thomas J. Nechyba

   This paper develops a general equilibrium model of an economy that produces output using capital, labor and land as inputs. It further develops an approach that allows specific parameters in the...

7. Local Government, Fiscal Autonomy and Fiscal Stress

   The Case of California
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 1999
   Jeffrey I. Chapman

   This working paper defines and extends the concepts of local government autonomy and local government fiscal autonomy, examining them as potential necessary conditions for a Tiebout equilibrium. It...

8. Implementing a Local Property Tax Where There Is No Real Estate Market

   The Case of Commonly Owned Land in Rural South Africa
   Libros
   Abril 2006
   Michael E. Bell and John H. Bowman

   Since 1995 the authors have worked on a series of property taxation projects in South Africa, funded in part by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. South Africa envisions extending value-based...

9. The Property Tax and Local Autonomy

   Libros
   Marzo 2010
   Edited by Michael E. Bell, David Brunori and Joan Youngman

   Some of the nation’s leading scholars of government and public finance provide their views on the consequences of a declining property tax base. They show local government officials and others...

10. Local Government Finances During and After the Great Recession

    Ponencias
    Noviembre 2015

    Using data from the Fiscally Standardized Cities (FiSC) database, Langley documents the impact of the Great Recession on major revenue sources for local governments across the United States.