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1. Panorama del impuesto predial en América Latina

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2010
   Claudia M. De Cesare

   Este artículo presenta los resultados principales de una encuesta que se está efectuando en América Latina sobre el impuesto predial, de acuerdo a los datos tomados hasta septiembre de 2008. Los...

2. The Effect of Land Value Ratio on Property Tax Protests and the Effects of Protests on Assessment Uniformity

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2010
   Elizabeth Plummer

   This study examines the association of a property’s land value ratio with the probability and outcome of an owner protesting the property’s assessed value, and the resulting effects of...

3. The New American Ghost Town

   Foreclosure, Abandonment, and the Prospects for City Planning
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2010
   Justin Hollander, Colin Polsky, Dan Zinder, and Dan Runfola

   Housing vacancy has been recognized as a significant factor that accelerates neighborhood decline. More recently, researchers and policymakers have reframed this problem as an opportunity for...

4. A Planet of Cities

   Urban Land Cover Estimates and Projections for All Countries, 2000-2050
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2010
   Shlomo Angel, Jason Parent, Daniel Civco, Alexander Blei, and David Potere

   We created a new data set comprising the universe of all 3,649 named metropolitan agglomerations and cities that had populations in excess of 100,000 in the year 2000, their populations in that year...

5. Revenue Diversification and the Financing of Large American Central Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2010
   Howard Chernick, Adam Langley, and Andrew Reschovsky

   The housing crisis and the recession have placed tremendous fiscal pressure on the nation’s central cities. Cuts in state government fiscal assistance to their local governments, plus shrinking...

6. Property Tax Reform

   The Northern Ireland Experience
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2010
   William J. McCluskey and Nigel D. Woods

   This paper reviews the strategic approach, the policy development and the implementation of a major reform to the residential property tax in Northern Ireland. This reform, the first in some 150...

7. Panorama do Imposto sobre a Propriedade Imobiliária na América Latina

   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2010
   Claudia M. De Cesare

   Este artigo apresenta os principais resultados do levantamento de dados que vem sendo desenvolvido a respeito do imposto sobre a propriedade imobiliária na América Latina, tendo como base um corte...

8. Outperforming the Market

   Delinquency and Foreclosure Rates in Community Land Trusts
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2010
   Emily Thaden

   This study examines the rates of delinquencies and foreclosure filings in mortgages that were held by households who owned homes in Community Land Trusts (CLTs) during 2009. A survey was administered...

9. Overview of the Property Tax in Latin America

   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2010
   Claudia M. De Cesare

   This article presents the main results of a survey that is being conducted on the property tax in Latin America, based on a snapshot taken in September 2008. Survey data is being collected on an...

10. Property Tax Limitations and Local Fiscal Conditions

    The Impact of Proposition 2½ in Massachusetts
    Documentos de trabajo
    Septiembre 2010
    Bruce Wallin and Jeffrey Zabel

    In Massachusetts, Proposition 2½ limits local property taxes to 2.5% of assessed value (the “levy ceiling”) and restricts the current limit on property tax revenue (the “levy...