Impact of Tax Law on Land Use, Conservation, and Preservation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William A. Fischel
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781558442887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Zoning has for a century enabled cities to chart their own course. It is a useful and popular institution, enabling homeowners to protect their main investment and provide safe neighborhoods. As home values have soared in recent years, however, this protection has accelerated to the degree that new housing development has become unreasonably difficult and costly. The widespread Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) syndrome is driven by voters’ excessive concern about their home values and creates barriers to growth that reach beyond individual communities. The barriers contribute to suburban sprawl, entrench income and racial segregation, retard regional immigration to the most productive cities, add to national wealth inequality, and slow the growth of the American economy. Some state, federal, and judicial interventions to control local zoning have done more harm than good. More effective approaches would moderate voters’ demand for local-land use regulation—by, for example, curtailing federal tax subsidies to owner-occupied housing"--Publisher's description.
Author: Dick Netzer
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text brings together essays by scholars connecting the property tax with land use. They explore the idea that the property tax is used as a partial substitute for land use regulation and other policies designed to affect how land is utilized. Like many economists, the contributors see some type of property taxation as the more efficient means of helping to shape land use. Some of the essays analyze a conventional property tax, while others consider radically different systems of property taxation. context of a dynamic model of real estate markets. The remaining papers examine how various tax mechanisms and non-tax alternatives to regulating and determining land use, such as zoning and private neighbourhood associations, complement or substitute for one another. Urban planners and economists interested in local public finance should find this a useful study.
Author: Richard F. Dye
Publisher: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781558442047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The land value tax is the focus of this Policy Focus Report, Assessing the Theory and Practice of Land Value Taxation. A concept dating back to Henry George, the land value tax is a variant of the property tax that imposes a higher tax rate on land than on improvements, or taxes only the land value. Many other types of changes in property tax policy, such as assessment freezes or limitations, have undesirable side effects, including unequal treatment of similarly situated taxpayers and distortion of economic incentives. The land value tax can enhance both the fairness and the efficiency of property tax collection, with few undesirable effects; land is effectively in fixed supply, so an increase in the tax rate on land value will raise revenue without distorting the incentives for owners to invest in and use their land. A land value tax has also been seen as a way to combat urban sprawl by encouraging density and infill development. Authors Richard F. Dye and Richard W. England examine the experience of those who have implemented the land value tax -- more than 30 countries around the world, and in the United States, several municipalities dating back to 1913, when the Pennsylvania legislature permitted Pittsburgh and Scranton to tax land values at a higher rate than building values. A 1951 statute gave smaller Pennsylvania cities the same option to enact a two-rate property tax, a variation of the land value tax. About 15 communities currently use this type of tax program, while others tried and rescinded it. Hawaii also has experience with two-rate taxation, and Virginia and Connecticut have authorized municipalities to choose a two-rate property tax. The land value tax has been subjected to studies comparing jurisdictions with and without it, and to legal challenges. A land value tax also raises administrative issues, particularly in the area of property tax assessments. Land value taxation is an attractive alternative to the traditional property tax, especially to much more problematic types of property tax measures such as assessment limitations, the authors conclude. A land value tax is best implemented if local officials use best assessing practices to keep land and improvement values up to date; phase in dual tax rates over several years; and include a tax credit feature in those communities where land-rich but income-poor citizens might suffer from land value taxation.
Author: Lehigh University. Institute of Research
Publisher: Economic Education League
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: K.C. Wenzer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1315501562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars examines the merits and shortcomings of Land-Value taxation, and how it compares and contrasts with the conventional property tax. The latter is shown as deterring enterprise to the detriment of employment and as pushing up the cost of improving property with inflationary consequences. The former, with evidence from places where it is already in use, is shown to encourage optimum land use, foster employment, and prevent urban sprawl.
Author: Howard James Brown
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781558441248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Can today's policy makers and researchers effectively draw on the ideas of nineteenth-century philosopher Henry George to help solve twenty-first-century problems? This compendium presents eight essays by scholars who demonstrate that many of George's ideas about land use and taxation remain valuable today.
Author: Richard F. Dye
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Provides historical, economic, political and legal perspectives for understanding the many issues surrounding land taxation." - cover.
Author: Arthur P. Becker
Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Committee on Taxation, Resources and Economic Development (TRED)."--T.p.