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1. Public Finance Concepts for Planners

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 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...

2. Report Says Foreign-Born Help New England Cities Revive

   Comunicados de Imprensa
   Outubro 23, 2006

3. Land Value Taxation for Local Government Finance in the Russian Federation

   A Case Study of Saratov Oblast
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Março 2006
   John L. Mikesell, C. Kurt Zorn, Valentina Guerasimova, Svetlana Vladimirova, and Olha Krupa

   As the Russian Federation restructures its local government finances to provide greater local fiscal autonomy, it is changing the way it taxes land. Instead of using normative measures such as area...

4. Motor Fuel Taxation, Energy Conservation, and Economic Development

   A Regional Approach
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Abril 2006
   Richard W. England

   Combustion of motor fuels has a variety of environmental impacts on local, regional and global scales. Taxing motor fuels more heavily would mitigate those environmental impacts. However, many...

5. Improving the Valuation of Large Commercial Properties for Real Estate Tax Purposes

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Abril 2006
   Richard Almy

   The aims of this project are to examine systematically methods for valuing large office buildings for property tax purposes, identify issues, evaluate their seriousness, and describe potential...

6. Land Lines, January 2006

   Revista Land Lines
   Janeiro 2006
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue looks at the need for regionalistic approaches to planning in New England and elsewhere in the U.S.; the goals and challenges of using territorial and multipurpose cadastres; and how tax...

7. The Tiebout Model at Fifty

   Essays in Public Economics in Honor of Wallace Oates
   Livros
   Junho 2006
   Edited by William A. Fischel

   The Tiebout Model at Fifty commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Charles Tiebout’s enormously influential 1956 article, “A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures,” and honors the...

8. Who Pays the Property Tax?

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2006
   George Zodrow

   A critical aspect of the property tax, but one that is rarely addressed in public debate, is its “economic incidence,” or who actually bears the burden of the tax, as opposed to its...

9. Report from the President

   Changes in Institute Programs and Activities
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2006
   Gregory K. Ingram

   The content of the Institute’s work program has evolved significantly over the past two years, and its annual activities have increased by about half since 2004. Reflecting this evolution and growth...

10. Conservation Incentives in America's Heartland

    Revista Land Lines
    Outubro 2006
    James N. Levitt

    Inspired by the work of Aldo Leopold, conservation leaders explore three types of incentive programs to achieve land conservation in an economically efficient, measurably effective, and reasonably...