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New Video Highlights Link Between Taxes and Essential Services
El Instituto Lincoln en las noticiasDiciembre 14, 2020 -
Economic Development
Vermont Attempts a Kinder, Gentler TIF—But Will it Work?Revista Land LinesAgosto 2019By Will Jason, August 20, 2019Vermont has enacted some of the nation’s tightest restrictions on tax increment financing, a common economic development tool with a less-than-stellar track record. Can these guardrails make TIF work?
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Recessionary Property Taxes
Evidence from MarylandDocumentos de trabajoMarzo 2019Andrew T. HayashiProperty taxes are often credited for stabilizing local government revenues during contractions, but this revenue stabilization can have destabilizing effects on households. In this paper I explore...
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Portland Leaders Cautious As They Review Complex Proposal for Eastern Waterfront
El Instituto Lincoln en las noticiasFebrero 25, 2020 -
A Guide to the Structure of Property Tax Abatements in the United States
Documentos de trabajoNoviembre 2002John L. Mikesell, C. Kurt Zorn, Esteban Dalehite, and Sung-Jin ParkProperty tax abatements—full or partial relief from property tax for certain property parcels—constitute an integral component of many state and local economic development programs....
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Property Taxes for Local Finance
Research Results and Policy Perspectives (Reconsidering Property Taxes: Perhaps Not So Bad After All)Documentos de trabajoEnero 2009Ronald C. FisherAlthough 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...
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Property Taxation and Residential Density
Theory and EmpiricsDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2008Richard W. England and Ju-Chin HuangIn this paper, we first theorize about the size of a house constructed on a residential lot, measured by height and footprint area. We hypothesize that the property tax rate will have a negative...
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Intra-Metropolitan Area Fiscal Capacity Disparities and the Property Tax
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2004Michael E. Bell, Lindsay C. Clark, Joe Cordes, and Hal WolmanThe purpose of this study is to assess the extent of variations in the revenue capacity of select local governments in the Washington, DC area using the Representative Revenue System developed by 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 Value Taxation
Can It and Will It Work Today?LibrosEnero 1998Edited by Dick NetzerMany contemporary scholars and practitioners question whether land value taxation is a serious contender as an important revenue source. But, whatever its political potential may be, economists...
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