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Protestas fiscales en Colombia, 2011–2015
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2019Olga Lucía Zapata Cortés and Marco Fidel Agudelo CanoEntre 2011 y 2015 se protestó en Colombia a causa del incremento del impuesto predial, el cobro de la contribución por valorización para la financiación de obras pú...
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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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Designing Land Value Capture Tools in the Context of Complex Tenurial and Deficient Land Use Regulatory Regimes in Accra, Ghana
Documentos de trabajoMarzo 2019Samuel Banleman BiitirRapid urbanization has increased the demand for urban infrastructure services. Municipalities have attempted to finance infrastructure services with value capture instruments. The paper highlights...
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Doing Bad by Doing Good?
An Empirical Analysis of the Incentives from Informal Settlements’ Upgrading Programs on Urban InformalityDocumentos de trabajoMarzo 2019Cynthia Goytia and Guadalupe DornaThis paper has two different aims. First, we investigate the effects of informal settlements upgrading programs through a systematic review synthesizing the information provided by evaluations of...
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The Tax Autonomy of Local Governments in the United States
Documentos de trabajoEnero 2019Andrew ReschovskyStatistics on the share of total government tax revenue raised by local governments provide an incomplete picture of local government taxing power. If higher level governments define the local tax...
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Distributive Impacts and Support for Mass Transportation Projects
An Experimental Evaluation in Bogotá, ColombiaDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2018Alishia C. HollandWho supports mass infrastructure projects? Mass transportation infrastructure, such as metros and highways, is hugely expensive. But it also can deliver widespread benefits to users and windfall...
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Estimating Agricultural Use Value for Property Tax Purposes
How do State Programs Assess Use Value?Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2011All fifty states in the United States provide property tax preferences for agricultural land via some form of use-value assessment. By this assessment approach agricultural land is valued in its...
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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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Property Tax Reform
The Northern Ireland ExperienceDocumentos de trabajoNoviembre 2010William J. McCluskey and Nigel D. WoodsThis paper reviews the strategic approach, the policy development and the implementation of a major reform to the residential property tax in Northern Ireland. This reform, the first in some 150...
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