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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Property taxes"”.
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Three Essays on Urban Property Taxes
… that examine the economic and fiscal effects of property tax policies in urban areas. The dissertation aims to expand current understanding of urban property tax dynamics and fragmentation features.In the first chapter, titled "Property Tax Interaction among Overlapping Local Jurisdictions: …
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The effect property taxes have on property values: a study of a specific situation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1974. B.S.
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Financing the Interim Period Between Levy and Collection of Property Taxes in Unit School Districts of Illinois
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Tax policy, housing markets, and elderly homeowners
… Chapter Two studies the relationship between property taxes and elderly mobility. This is the first study using an instrumental variable approach to address the endogeneity problem associated with property taxes in analyzing elderly mobility. Using household-level panel data from the Health …
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An analysis of taxpayer attitudes toward a local income tax to support public schools
… traditionally relied almost solely upon local property taxes for the main support of public education, other revenue sources have included sales, bank shares and occupational taxes at the local level. With the passing of the Local Tax Enabling Act in 1965 at the state level, most Pennsylvania …
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Housing price dynamics and household mobility decisions
… History Survey to measure the impact of property tax abatement programs on elderly homeownership decisions. Analysis using a competing risks framework, in which the decision to trade down is treated separately from the decision to end homeownership completely, shows striking differences …
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A computable general equilibrium analysis of a statewide fiscal reform: the case of Michigan's 1993-3 property tax reform
… the tax effects of simultaneously reducing property taxes by 44 percent and increasing the rate of sales taxation from four to six percent in Michigan in 1994. The dissertation fills the void in the literature for empirical regional computable general equilibrium models. It adds some …
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Rent-to-own contracts and tax risk
… agreement would reduce barriers to purchase a property for future buyers. However, to promote this type of contract it is necessary to demonstrate that investors will be exposed to lower risk, or higher returns, than in a traditional lease. Since taxes are an important part of a real estate …
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Fractionalization and tax effort to fund Illinois public schools: an equity analysis
… population may adversely impact a community’s property tax effort to fund public education. In Illinois, local property taxes are the primary source of revenue that supports public school expenditures. Disparities in per pupil expenditures between school districts in Illinois rank among the …
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"Only the little people pay taxes" : reforming New York City's property tax structure to mitigate inequality and increase efficiency
Across the U.S., property tax rates for rental buildings average 1.4 times higher than rates for homeownership properties. In New York City, the spread is 6.4 times. In a city where more than 50% of residents are rent-burdened, the Rent Guidelines Board estimates that fully 1/3 of rents are …
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The use of easements for the protection of the Appalachian Trail in Virginia
… and the effect of easements on income and property taxes. In concluding, easements are compared with fee acquisition of recreational lands and purchase and lease back. Both positive and negative aspects of easements as reflected in the Virginia Appalachian Trail program are discussed.
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Tax Increment Financing in Illinois: Policy Implications for School Districts
The property tax is one source of revenue for local governments. In 1977, the Illinois legislature passed a law which sets up procedures whereby a municipality can declare certain areas within its boundaries as a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district to promote redevelopment of the area. The area …
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NYC property tax exemption program : existing policies and future planning
New York City's tax expenditures relate to real property tax totaled $4.5 billion in fiscal year 2012. The largest expenditure relates to the "421-a" tax exemption program for new multi-family residential real estate development, which costs the New Yorkers nearly $1 billion in foregone tax revenue …
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Wastewater Regulation: a Groundwater Protection Strategy For Christian County, Missouri
… and recreation, no building regulations and low property taxes. With unregulated growth, groundwater contamination can result from inadequately installed septic systems. The amount of contamination is partly reflected by a Total Coliform water study conducted countywide. The county was divided …
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An analysis of the Guernsey housing market
… household income, mortgage interest rates, property taxes, new construction, conversions, demolitions, the housing stock, housing prices, and rents. The impact of non-local employees on the housing market and the recent growth of international business are given special attention, along with …
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The Determinants of County Growth in Virginia
… localities. Results also indicate that high property taxes have had a strong negative influence upon growth in recent decades. For policy makers and planners in rapidly growing regions, these results indicate that development ordinances that restrict growth to more densely populated areas …
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Property tax shifting under imperfect competition: Theory and application
… amenities can become sources of market power for property management firms that control them and the extent to which such market power, if present, affects property tax shifting from property owners to property renters. The specific market examined in this dissertation is the vacation rentals …
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Power, Risk, and Democratic Control in State-Local Finance: The Effect of State Tax and Expenditure Limits on Municipal Debt and Risk
… effects of TELs, particularly limitations on property taxes, on fiscal risk metrics. The study is motivated by the increased financialization of the public sector, and concordant growth in risk in municipal government. How has the state-local relationship contributed to local risk? Using a …
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Factors influencing relocation to a retirement community
… the large size of one's last dwelling unit, high property taxes on the last dwelling unit, and the value of one's new dwelling unit for the money. Second, no one factor precipitated relocation; rather, it was a combination of factors within the old and new near environments. Last, dwelling unit …
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Bureaucratic Inequality: How Administrative Processes and Policy Design Shape Housing Outcomes
… contract out the collection of delinquent property taxes—a process called property tax lien sale. Using a case study of Marion County, Indiana, I find that tax lien properties disproportionately cluster in Black neighborhoods which the city targets for urban renewal. Even more, properties …
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