The Property Tax and Local Autonomy

The Property Tax and Local Autonomy
Author: Michael E. Bell
Publisher: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781558442061

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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

Local Tax Policy

Local Tax Policy
Author: David Brunori
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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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.

Decentralization and Rural Property Taxation

Decentralization and Rural Property Taxation
Author: Simon H. Keith
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789251051443

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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.

Local Government and the States: Autonomy, Politics and Policy

Local Government and the States: Autonomy, Politics and Policy
Author: David R. Berman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2015-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317465857

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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.

Local Tax Policy

Local Tax Policy
Author: David Brunori
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780877667803

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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.

The Property Tax, School Funding Dilemma

The Property Tax, School Funding Dilemma
Author: Daphne A. Kenyon
Publisher: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781558441682

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States experiencing taxpayer revolts among homeowners are tempted to reduce reliance on the property tax to fund schools. But a more targeted approach can provide property tax relief and improve state funding for public education. This policy focus report includes a comprehensive review of recent research on both property tax and school funding, and summarizes case studies of seven states-- California, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio and Texas. The majority of these states are heavily reliant on property tax revenues to fund schools. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution, the report recommends addressing property taxes and school funding separately.

A Good Tax

A Good Tax
Author: Joan Youngman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2016
Genre: Local finance
ISBN: 9781558443426

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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.

Local Tax Policy

Local Tax Policy
Author: David Brunori
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2019-07-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 153813117X

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Local Tax Policy: A Primer provides the definitive discussion of how local governments raise revenue. The fourth edition addresses the fundamental influences on local tax and revenue policy including interjurisdictional competition, the politics of anti-taxation, and the relationships with state and federal governments. The primary sources of revenue are discussed from a policy perspective noting the pros and cons of the property tax, local sales and income taxes, and nontax revenue such as intergovernmental aid and user fees.

The Changing Property Tax in the West

The Changing Property Tax in the West
Author: Alvin J. Sokolow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre:
ISBN:

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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.