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1. Estimates of the Total Cost and Distribution of Tax Relief Under State Funded Property Tax Circuit Breakers

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2009
   Adam H. Langley

   This paper uses data from the 2006 American Community Survey to estimate the cost for state governments to fund three hypothetical property tax circuit breaker programs and a homestead exemption. The...

2. What Drives the Property Tax?

   A Holistic Examination of City and County Budgets in Minnesota
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2009
   Aaron Twait and Mark Haveman

   Property tax levy increases are a policy concern for state and local governments nationally. It is conceptually appealing to examine state-level aggregate data to discern trends and explanations for...

3. Property Taxes for Local Finance

   Research Results and Policy Perspectives (Reconsidering Property Taxes: Perhaps Not So Bad After All)
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2009
   Ronald C. Fisher

   Although property taxes continue to be one of the fundamental fiscal foundations for local government in the U.S., they also remain exceptionally controversial (even among taxes). The political or...

4. Exploring Changes in Homeowner Property Taxes in Wisconsin, 2000 to 2005

   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2009
   Rebecca Boldt, Bradley Caruth, and Andrew Reschovsky

   Despite policymakers’ interest in property tax relief, very little is known about changes over time in the property tax liabilities and burdens faced by homeowners. Drawing on the fact that...

5. Property Tax Circuit Breakers

   Fair and Cost-Effective Relief for Taxpayers
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2009
   John H. Bowman, Daphne A. Kenyon, Adam Langley and Bethany P. Paquin

   This report presents the rationale for providing property tax relief to those who have a high relative tax burden, compares the fairness of various criteria used by states for eligibility, and...

6. China’s Land System

   Past, Present, and Future
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Dwight H. Perkins

   In this paper, Dwight H. Perkins discusses how the development of Chinese real estate markets has generated tensions between different segments of the population and between the government and...

7. Property Rights and Real Estate Privatization in Russia

   A Work in Progress
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Bertrand Renaud, Joseph K. Eckert, and R. Jerome Anderson

   Russia has attempted to develop property rights institutions to facilitate the development of private real estate markets since 1991. As of 2008 only one city (Veliky Novgorod) of 171 medium and...

8. Should Decreases in Property Value Caused by Regulations Be Compensated?

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Abraham Bell

   Ideally, government could recoup the benefits of land use planning and redistribute them to those who bear the costs. In this case takings compensation is justified. Given the reciprocal nature of...

9. Property Rights Created Under a Federalist Approach to Tradable Emissions Policy

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Dallas Burtraw and Richard Sweeney

   Property rights approaches can be employed to achieve environmental conservation. Two specific topics are examined here: tradable emission permits and conservation easements. The implementation of...

10. Private Conservation Easements

    Balancing Private Initiative and the Public Interest
    Ponencias
    Mayo 2009
    Gerald Korngold

    A commonly used property rights approach to conserving the environment is private conservation easements. Gerald Korngold discusses the benefits of this policy and proposes methods to mediate some of...