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Strengthening the Local Property Tax
The Need for a Property Tax Expenditure BudgetDocumentos de trabajoAgosto 2011Katrina D. Connolly and Michael E. BellThe 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....
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The Valuation of Federally Subsidized Housing
Ten Questions for the Property TaxDocumentos de trabajoFebrero 2011Joan M. YoungmanThe complex federal incentives for private investment in low- and moderate-income housing have produced decades of judicial decisions on the appropriate local tax treatment of these properties. This...
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Revenue Diversification and the Financing of Large American Central Cities
Documentos de trabajoAgosto 2011The housing crisis and the Great Recession have placed tremendous fiscal pressure on the nation’s central cities. Cuts in state government fiscal assistance to their local governments, plus...
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TIF at a Turning Point
Defining Debt DownDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2011Tax increment financing (TIF) is the most important fiscal instrument for local development initiatives in this country. However, in many cases its growth has been accompanied by “moral hazard...