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Introducing Value-based Property Taxation in Poland
Revista Land LinesMarzo 1999Jane Malme and Dennis RobinsonAs a next step in the economic reforms begun in the post-Soviet period, momentum is growing in Poland for the introduction of a property tax based on market value. The recently established Department...
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Mexicali
A Success Story of Property Tax ReformRevista Land LinesSeptiembre 1999Manuel Perló CohenThe case of Mexicali, the capital city of the border state of Baja California, Mexico, stands out as a good example of successful property tax reform in the 1990s. In only a few years the local...
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Challenges to Property Tax Administration in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Revista Land LinesSeptiembre 1999The property tax in Brazil is an annual tax on urban land and buildings administered at the local government level. The tax base is derived from market value and is standardized across different...
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Taxes on Land and Buildings
Case Studies of Transitional EconomiesRevista Land LinesMayo 1999Jane H. MalmeThe introduction of property taxation in transitional economies offers a unique perspective from which to study fiscal and governmental decentralization, land privatization and market development....
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Municipal Taxation in San Salvador
Revista Land LinesMayo 1999Patricia Fuentes and Mario LungoThe demand for urban services surpasses the financial capacity of most cities around the world. To address this problem, many municipal governments successfully use the property tax, combined with...
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Educating Policymakers and Communities about Sprawl
Revista Land LinesJulio 1999Rosalind GreensteinWhile the issue of managing suburban growth has long been on the Lincoln Institute's agenda, "sprawl" is now receiving a great deal of attention from citizens, policy analysts and policymakers, as...
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Smart Growth for the Bluegrass Region
Revista Land LinesEnero 1999Jean Scott and Peter PollockLike many fast-growing areas across the country, the Bluegrass region of central Kentucky is dealing with two complementary growth management issues: How to manage growth that takes place within the...
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Human Rights and Evictions of the Urban Poor in Colombia
Revista Land LinesNoviembre 1999Margaret EverettAlthough many governments in Latin America have improved the process of legalizing peripheral settlements, recognized the rights of housing, and acknowledged the United Nations' position on evictions...
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Implementing Property Taxation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Revista Land LinesNoviembre 1999C. Kurt Zorn, Jean Tesche, and Gary CorniaThe state of Bosnia and Herzegovina continues its long process of reconstruction and reconciliation, four years after the November 1995 signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, which marked the end of a...
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Urban Development Options for California's Central Valley
Revista Land LinesSeptiembre 1999William FultonFor more than a century, California's Great Central Valley has been recognized as one of the world's foremost agricultural regions. A giant basin 450 miles long and averaging 50 miles wide, the...
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