The Property Tax And Local Autonomy
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Author |
: Michael E. Bell |
Publisher |
: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1558442065 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781558442061 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Property Tax and Local Autonomy by : Michael E. Bell
This book examines the issues and consequences of a declining property tax base with respect to local government autonomy. Some of the nation's leading scholars provide their views on how the property tax effects intergovernmental relations, local autonomy, and education finance. --from publisher description
Author |
: David Brunori |
Publisher |
: The Urban Insitute |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105114359040 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Local Tax Policy by : David Brunori
Local governments across the United States are struggling to raise revenue to pay for public services. Increased demands by citizens for more and better services; the ever-rising costs of providing services; and a plethora of legal and political restrictions on raising tax revenue have left many American local governments in dire fiscal straits. The fiscal autonomy of local governments has been declining for several decades. By ceding financial control to the states, localities cede political control over their affairs. Paralleling this loss of financial and political control, local governments are losing control over the property tax, their most stable and reliable source of revenue. Brunori explores the roots of the current fiscal crisis and evaluates various relief proposals. He champions the property tax, offering a blueprint for strengthening this oft-maligned instrument and returning the tax autonomy that has been vital to the success of the American political and economic systems.
Author |
: Simon H. Keith |
Publisher |
: Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages |
: 62 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9251051445 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789251051443 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decentralization and Rural Property Taxation by : Simon H. Keith
This publication contains guidance on the design and implementation of rural property tax systems. Issues discussed include why local governments should have a reasonable degree of fiscal autonomy if they are to make the delivery of rural services more efficient and effective, and how rural property taxes can be a vital source of revenues for rural communities. The guide identifies policy, administrative and technical issues to be considered in the design of rural property taxes, and gives a chronological checklist for the implementation of reforms.
Author |
: David R. Berman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2015-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317465867 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317465865 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Local Government and the States: Autonomy, Politics and Policy by : David R. Berman
This book offers an overview of the legal, political, and broad intergovernmental environment in which relations between local and state units of government take place, the historical roots of the conflict among them, and an analysis of contemporary problems concerning local authority, local revenues, state interventions and takeovers, and the restructuring of local governments. The author pays special attention to local governmental autonomy and the goals and activities of local officials as they seek to secure resources, fend off regulations and interventions, and fight for survival as independent units. He looks at the intergovernmental struggle from the bottom up, but in the process examines a variety of political activities at the state level and the development and effects of several state policies. Berman finds considerable reason to be concerned about the viability and future of meaningful local government.
Author |
: Joan Youngman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1558443428 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781558443426 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Good Tax by : Joan Youngman
In A Good Tax, tax expert Joan Youngman skillfully considers how to improve the operation of the property tax and supply the information that is often missing in public debate. She analyzes the legal, administrative, and political challenges to the property tax in the United States and offers recommendations for its improvement. The book is accessibly written for policy analysts and public officials who are dealing with specific property tax issues and for those concerned with property tax issues in general.
Author |
: David Brunori |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0877667802 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780877667803 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Local Tax Policy by : David Brunori
Local governments are struggling to raise revenue for public services, but their fiscal autonomy has been declining for decades. By ceding financial control to the states, localities have ceded political control over their affairs. Paralleling this loss, local governments are losing control over property tax, their most stable and reliable source of revenue. In Local Tax Policy, David Brunori explores the roots of the current fiscal crisis, evaluates various relief proposals, and champions the property tax, offering a blueprint for strengthening this oft-maligned instrument. The third edition has been updated to reflect new tax policy developments since the publication of the first edition in 2003.
Author |
: Alvin J. Sokolow |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1376018883 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Changing Property Tax in the West by : Alvin J. Sokolow
The traditional role of the property tax as the fiscal mainstay of local governments in the United States has been much diminished in the last two decades. Because of restrictions imposed by state governments and statewide electorates, the property tax has become more of a fiscal and political tool for state policymakers, losing much of its local character. Local governments in a number of states have much less control of the rates and yields of this major revenue source, giving up in the process a certain amount of fiscal autonomy. The trend is a national one, but it is particularly evident in the 13-state West in part because of the relatively extensive use in this region of voter initiatives that restrict this and other revenue sources. In detailing the restrictions adopted in recent years by individual western states as a result of voter initiatives and legislative actions, this paper demonstrates the centralization of the property tax and its reduced role as the principal source of fiscal discretion for local governments.
Author |
: Enid Slack |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 18 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0772709858 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780772709851 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Much Local Fiscal Autonomy Do Cities Have? by : Enid Slack
Author |
: Roy W. Bahl |
Publisher |
: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1558442006 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781558442009 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on the Property Tax by : Roy W. Bahl
The property tax could be improved in reputation and practice with key policy and administrative reforms, according to Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on the Property Tax, which suggests ways to achieve greater voter confidence and more robust property tax systems in both developed and developing countries. --from publisher description
Author |
: Darien Shanske |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 21 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1308973707 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Local Fiscal Autonomy Requires Constraints by : Darien Shanske
In this paper, I argue that we should replace poorly designed fiscal rules constraining cities and other local governments. For example, instead of requiring a local supermajority to issue debt, localities should only be able to issue relatively safe forms of debt. Abolishing the old rule enhances local autonomy, while instituting the new rule channels localities away from the poor outcomes that reasonably motivated the (ineffective) old rule. The ultimate rationale for the shift is that localities should not have their fiscal autonomy hamstrung because there are specific issues, such as the design of financial instruments, over which they are at a comparative disadvantage. The specific limitations governing localities should be - and can be - designed to address specifically the limitations that local governments actually have. It is not a coincidence that many of the crude rules to be replaced date from the nineteenth century. I conclude by applying this reasoning to another area in which localities are constrained by poorly designed and overbroad fiscal rules: taxation. On taxation, I arrive at a similar conclusion. Localities should be much freer to raise taxes, particularly property taxes, but they should be constrained in their design of taxes, particularly tax bases.