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ABSTRACTS: From the New York Times
When New York City’s subway recovered from its last major crisis, it again began throwing off enormous returns for the…
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IN THE NEWS: The New York Times: The Subways Made Them Rich. Is It Time for Them to Pay Up?
New York City’s MTA is now pushing the idea of capturing elevated real estate values created along subway expansion lines.…
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These Six Cities Are Smarter Than Portland About Housing
These Six Cities Are Smarter Than Portland About Housing
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Revealing the Cost of Property Tax Incentives for Business
Author Timothy Bartik found that state and local governments spent $45 billion on total business tax incentives in 2015. To…
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Tulsa looks to “the ground beneath our feet” for school funding, but is it found in the land or the buildings on the land? Read more…
Excerpts from: ACCIDENTAL URBANIST September 2017 Key to Education Funding: The Ground…
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Book Review — A Good Tax: Legal and Policy Issues for the Property Tax in the United States, by Joan M. Youngman and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2016), 260 pages.
Reviewed in ABA Tax Times, August 2017 by Bree Ermentrout, Springfield, VA The term “good tax” may raise eyebrows outside…
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ABSTRACT: Thailand’s Land and Building Tax Economic and Philosophical Grounding
Thailand’s Financial Ministry is considering a Land Windfall Tax, but is also about to adopt a Land & Building Tax.…
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ABSTRACTS: Sitting on Assets in Vancouver BC
Homeowners in Vancouver B.C., made more financial gain by sitting on their property than the entire population did through wage-earning…
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ABSTRACTS: Funding Infrastructure by Capturing Land Value Increments: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Funding Infrastructure by Capturing Land Value Increments: An Idea Whose Time Has…
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Labour looks to replace Council Tax with a Land Value Tax
Britain’s Labour Party looks to replace the Council Tax with a Land…
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