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1. Can Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Reverse Urban Decline?

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2003
   Rachel N. Weber

   To counteract physical decline, local governments have increasingly relied on a redevelopment tool called Tax Increment Financing (TIF). TIF allows municipalities to designate an area for improvement...

2. Designing Land Value Capture Tools in the Context of Complex Tenurial and Deficient Land Use Regulatory Regimes in Accra, Ghana

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Samuel Banleman Biitir

   Rapid urbanization has increased the demand for urban infrastructure services. Municipalities have attempted to finance infrastructure services with value capture instruments. The paper highlights...

3. Taxes and Economic Development

   An Update on the State of the Economics Literature
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2019
   Andrew Hanson

   There 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),...

4. Inclusionary Housing

   Creating and Maintaining Equitable Communities
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2015
   Rick Jacobus

   This report illustrates how local governments can realize the full benefits of inclusionary housing policies, which require developers of new market-rate real estate to provide some affordable units...

5. Recuperação de Mais-Valias Fundiárias na América Latina

   Políticas e Instrumentos para o Desenvolvimento Urbano
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2014
   Martim O. Smolka

   Urbanization in Latin America is associated with strong pressure for the supply of serviced land, resulting in significant changes in land values that are distributed unequally among landowners and...

6. Implementación de la recuperación de plusvalías en América Latina

   Políticas e instrumentos para el desarrollo urbano
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Febrero 2014
   Martim O. Smolka

   Urbanization in Latin America is associated with strong pressure for the supply of serviced land, resulting in significant changes in land values that are distributed unequally among landowners and...

7. Land Value Taxation as a Method of Financing Municipal Expenditures in U.S. Cities

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Richard W. England

   To what extent could local governments employ land and property taxation to recoup a portion of these land values for financing local services and infrastructure? Richard W. England tackles this...

8. Town Planning Schemes as a Hybrid Land Readjustment Process in Ahmedabad, India

   A Better Way to Grow?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Bishwapriya Sanyal and Chandan Deuskar

   In India, local governments have increasingly relied on town planning schemes (TPS) to influence urban growth and to finance affordable housing and basic infrastructure. TPS is a hybrid land...

9. Taxing Land and Property in Emerging Economies

   Raising Revenue . . . and More?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack

   Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack examine the potential of land and property taxation in developing and transition countries. Bird and Slack present a less optimistic view of the use of land and...

10. Assessing the Nonprofit Property Tax Exemption

    Should Nonprofit Entities Be Taxed for Using Local Public Goods?
    Ponencias
    Mayo 2012
    Joseph J. Cordes

    There has been a prolonged debate on whether local governments should grant nonprofit organizations tax exemptions for owning real property. At the core of this debate is an issue related to value...