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1. Property Taxes

   What Everybody Needs to Know
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2021
   Ronald C. Fisher

   The property tax is the largest single source of revenue under the control of state or local governments in the United States. Property taxes provide a fundamental fiscal foundation for all types of...

2. Split-Rate Taxation

   Impacts on Tax Base
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2021
   Zhou Yang and Zackary Hawley

   Municipalities debating land value taxation or split-rate taxation need empirical evidence to understand how the transition of property tax regimes will affect their tax base. Using a valuable data...

3. Split-Rate Taxation and Business Establishment Location

   Evidence from the Pennsylvania Experience
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2021
   Andrew Hanson

   This paper estimates the relationship between business establishment location and split-rate property taxation. Using variation in split-rate adoption and intensity by municipalities across...

4. Assessment of Property Tax Reductions on Tax Delinquency, Tax Foreclosure, and Home Ownership

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2021
   Fernanda Alfaro, Dusan Paredes, and Mark Skidmore

   In this report, we provide an evaluation of the impacts in Detroit of reductions in residential effective tax rates on tax delinquency, property tax foreclosure, and homeownership. The decline in...

5. An Examination of Sales Ratio Data and Sources Incorporated into the 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2020
   Bob DeBoer

   The 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study, jointly produced by the Minnesota Center for Fiscal Excellence (MCFE) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, uses sales ratios to more accurately...

6. Public Finance Concepts for Planners

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2006
   Randall Crane

   What should planners be taught about public finance? This paper has three primary goals: First, to revisit the proper facilitating roles of public planning in the private economy; second, to...

7. Property Taxation and Land Value Capture in Africa

   Eventos
   Mayo 5, 2021

   This conference, organized in partnership with the African Tax Institute, provides a forum for scholars and practitioners to discuss a range of issues on property taxation in Africa.

8. Measuring the Fiscal Health of U.S. Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2020
   Howard Chernick and Andrew Reschovsky

   This paper uses a specially constructed data base on city finance that accounts for the revenues and spending of the constituent governments that provide public services in cities—municipal...

9. The Property Tax in Latvia

   System Structure and Current Challenges
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2020
   Sarmite Barvika

   The aim of this paper is to analyze the current state and trends of real property taxation policy in Latvia. Particular importance is given to the general statistical and historical overview of real...

10. Special Assessment Districts and the Financing of Infrastructure in South Africa

    The Innovative Use of a Special Rating Area in Claremont, Cape Town
    Documentos de trabajo
    Junio 2020
    Willard Matiashe and Arthur Germond

    Since 2000, special rating areas (SRAs), also known as Special Assessment Districts and/or city improvement districts (CIDs), have been used to revive urban nodes across the City of Cape Town (Cape...