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Household Mobility and Local Government Finance in U.S. Cities
Documentos de trabajoFebrero 2020Wenjing Li, Matthew Cushing, and John E. AndersonIn this paper, we examine how household mobility is affected by the choice of local government finance method (taxation versus debt finance) for U.S. cities. We develop a discrete time dynamic...
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Taxes and Economic Development
An Update on the State of the Economics LiteratureDocumentos de trabajoAgosto 2019Andrew HansonThere 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),...
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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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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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Volatility of Individual Property Tax Payments
Documentos de trabajoMarzo 2010Nathan B. AndersonThe most important independent source of local government revenue in the United States is the property tax. Yet the widespread unpopularity of the property tax leads voters to support state policies...
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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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