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1. Making a Good Tax Better: From Assessment to Collection, Three Places That Built Stronger Property Tax Systems

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2021
   By Liz Farmer, January 12, 2021

   What does the property tax look like when it works well, and how can municipalities improve the way they assess properties, collect taxes, and communicate about this essential financial instrument?...

2. City Tech

   How the Lincoln Institute Helped Bring Property Taxes into the Computer Age
   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2021
   By Will Jason, January 12, 2021

   In the early 1970s, the property tax was one of America’s favorite villains. Homeowners had seen their tax bills soar to new heights. Stories of corrupt assessors filled the news. And policy makers...

3. 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...

4. Public Finance

   Amid Falling Revenues, Some Cities Turn to the Property Tax
   Revista Land Lines
   Diciembre 2020
   By Liz Farmer, December 10, 2020

   As most major cities grapple with lost revenue due to the pandemic, some are turning toward the property tax as a way of filling the gap. Perhaps nowhere has this decision been more controversial...

5. Land Lines, Enero 2020

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2020
   Editado por Katharine Wroth

   En este número, exploramos la eliminación de la zonificación unifamiliar en Minneapolis, el potencial de financiar la infraestructura verde mediante captura de valor, el impacto...

6. Improving Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for Economic Development

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Febrero 2019
   David Merriman

   Tax increment financing (TIF) is a popular economic development tool across the United States, but it often falls short of its promise to revitalize struggling neighborhoods. In this four-page Policy...

7. 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...

8. 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...

9. 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...

10. Políticas de Suelo, Derecho Urbanístico y Cambio Climático

    Instrumentos Urbanísticos-Tributarios como Medidas para enfrentar al Cambio Climático. Etapa 2: Análisis de casos.
    Documentos de trabajo
    Abril 2020
    Melinda Lis Maldonado, Safira de la Sala, Rachelle Alterman, Giovanni Andrés Pérez Macías, y Roberto Arazo Silva

    Este documento constituye la presentación de una segunda etapa de investigación sobre Políticas de Suelo, Derecho Urbanístico y Cambio Climático. En una primera...