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1. 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...

2. Property Tax Delinquency in the United States

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2020
   Jenna DeAngelo

   How does a municipality create a property tax enforcement system that is revenue maximizing (property tax collection is as close to 100 percent as possible) but also fair (homeowners are able to...

3. Nationwide Mass Appraisal Modeling in China

   Feasibility Analysis for Scalability Given Ad Valorem Property Tax Reform
   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2019
   Peadar Davis, Michael McCord, Paul Bidanset, and Margie Cusack

   Since 2003, the Chinese government has considered introducing an annual property tax, and while it selected six pilot cities for experimenting with the viability of a mass appraisal system rollout,...

4. Household Mobility and Local Government Finance in U.S. Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2020
   Wenjing Li, Matthew Cushing, and John E. Anderson

   In 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...

5. The Future of U.S. Public School Revenue from the Property Tax

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Septiembre 2017
   Andrew Reschovsky, Research Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison

   This Policy Brief examines the property tax as a critical source of revenue for public schools in the United States. It demonstrates the high proportion of public education funding provided by the...

6. Taxes and Economic Development

   An Update on the State of the Economics Literature
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2019
   Andrew Hanson

   There 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),...

7. Nonprofit PILOTs (Payments in Lieu of Taxes)

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Noviembre 2016
   Daphne A. Kenyon and Adam H. Langley

   This policy brief covers key issues surrounding the use of nonprofit payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs): payments made voluntarily by tax-exempt nonprofits as a substitute for property taxes. It...

8. Finanzas municipales en México

   Por qué unos municipios recaudan más y gastan mejor
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2019
   Mónica Unda Gutiérrez, with collaboration from Humberto Morones Hernández

   El municipio promedio en México se ha hecho más dependiente de las transferencias fiscales y no ha aumentado sus niveles de inversión. Sin embargo, la imagen agregada disfraza la...

9. Protestas fiscales en Colombia, 2011–2015

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2019
   Olga Lucía Zapata Cortés and Marco Fidel Agudelo Cano

   Entre 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...

10. Distributive Impacts and Support for Mass Transportation Projects

    An Experimental Evaluation in Bogotá, Colombia
    Documentos de trabajo
    Diciembre 2018
    Alishia C. Holland

    Who 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...