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1. Municipal Fiscal Structures and Land-Based Growth in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Janeiro 2007
   Carol E. Heim

   This case study examines municipal fiscal structures in the Phoenix metropolitan area, with a focus on Scottsdale, Chandler, and Fountain Hills. It explores implications of the quest for sales tax...

2. The Impact of Nonprofit, Large Landowners on Public Finance in a Fiscally Distressed Municipality

   A Case Study of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2007
   Sabina Deitrick and Christopher Briem

   In 2004, the City of Pittsburgh became an Act 47 distressed community under Pennsylvania’s Municipalities Financial Recovery Act. This law placed the City in quasi-bankruptcy with state...

3. Fiscal Impact Analysis

   Methods, Cases, and Intellectual Debate
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2007
   Zenia Kotval and John Mullin

   Fiscal impact analysis seeks to connect planning and local economics by estimating the public costs and revenues that result from property investments. This type of analysis enables the comparison of...

4. The History and Purpose of Tax Increment Finance Policy in Wisconsin

   Do Wisconsin Tax Increment Finance Districts Stimulate Growth in Real Estate Values? Do They Contribute to Sprawl?
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2007
   Russell Kashian, Mark Skidmore, and David Merriman

   Like other U.S. states, tax increment financing (TIF) is an important component of the development policy landscape in Wisconsin. While the guidelines for the use of TIF are similar to those that...

5. Public Finance and Planning

   A Survey of Planning Schools
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2007
   Mary Edwards

   Development decisions made by planners on a daily basis, including those surrounding new development, zoned land uses, densities, building characteristics, parking requirements and others, have...

6. An Unfettered Property Tax in Illinois

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2007
   Nathan B. Anderson and Therese McGuire

   We evaluate property tax systems using the economic criteria of equity, efficiency and simplicity. We apply these criteria in an evaluation of both a stylized constrained property tax system in which...

7. Access to Land, Local Taxes and Financing of Urban Development

   The Case of Santiago, Chile
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Agosto 2007
   Camilo Arriagada Luco and Daniela Simioni

   This document is a report on research conducted as part of the Latin America Program of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, intended to contribute to the production of applied research and...

8. The Property Tax In Developing Countries

   Current Practice and Prospects
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2007
   Roy Bahl and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

   Over the past two decades there has been an unprecedented move toward decentralized governance all over the world. These changes have taken special significance in many developing and transitional...

9. Movilización social de la valorización de la tierra

   Casos latinoamericanos
   Outro
   Setembro 2007
   Editado por María Clara Vejarano

   Movilización social de la valorización de la tierra: Casos latinoamericanos (Social Mobilization of Land Value Increments: Case Studies from Latin America) includes thirteen case...

10. Value Capture for Urban Development

    An Inter-American Comparison
    Documentos de Trabalho
    Agosto 2007
    Martim O. Smolka and David Amborski

    The local governments designed an ample range of fiscal policies or regulations that have been inspired by the idea that the increase of the value of land can be mobilized in benefit of community-...