Download or read book The Impact of Local Tax Policy on Urban Economic Development written by Roy W. Bahl and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Information Bulletin explores the effects of local tax policy on urban economic development. The paper is practitioner-oriented and addresses the question of how local officials might best think through the advisability of adjusting local taxes to stimulate community job formation.
Download or read book The Impact of Local Tax Policy on Urban Economic Development written by Roy W. Bahl and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Government Tax and Land Use Policies in the United States written by Helen F. Ladd and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an accessible, nontechnical evaluation of the most recent economic thinking on the nexus between local land use and tax policies. In Part I, the author summarizes the literature on the subject and explores theoretical controversies surrounding issues such as land use regulation as a fiscal tool, the effect of taxes on economic activity, and the success of tax policies to promote economic development. In Parts II and III, a group of experts presents new research on areas including the impact of growth on tax burdens and the shift to land value taxation in urban areas. For students, economists, planners, and policy makers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Local Tax Policy written by David Brunori and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taxation and Economic Development written by John Toye and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978. The tax system is one of the instruments said to be available to translate development policy objectives into practice. The wide-ranging papers collected together in this volume, first published in 1978, explore different aspects of the link between national development objectives and the tax system. Attention is particularly focused on traditional aims such as growth, fair distribution and economic stabilisation and development. Articles written by distinguished experts in the fields of public finance and economic development clarify the concepts of taxable capacity and tax effort, and examine the connections between growth and changes within the tax system.
Download or read book The Role of Local Government in Economic Development written by Jonathan Q. Morgan and published by Unc School of Government. This book was released on 2009 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses the findings from a mail survey of local government economic development activities that was sent to all 540 municipalities and 100 counties in North Carolina. An important part of the analysis examines whether cities and counties differ significantly in their economic development efforts and whether smaller jurisdictions employ different types of development strategies and tools than larger ones. The survey findings also highlight the barriers that local governments face in promoting economic development and identify important technical assistance needs and gaps in local capacity.
Download or read book The State s Role in Urban Economic Development written by Leanne Aronson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OECD Tax Policy Studies Tax Policy Reform and Economic Growth written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report investigates how tax structures can best be designed to support GDP per capita growth.
Download or read book Tax Policy and Economic Development written by Richard Miller Bird and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluation of the unique conditions that apply to developing nations and an examination of their impact on both the kinds of taxes that may be raised and the effective administration of tax policy.
Download or read book The Impact of State and Local Government Taxes Spending and Regulations on Business Climate and Economic Development written by New Jersey State and Local Expenditure and Revenue Policy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Tax Increment Financing TIF for Economic Development written by David Merriman and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economist David Merriman of the University of Illinois at Chicago reviews more than 30 individual studies in the most comprehensive assessment of tax increment financing (TIF) with practical recommendations for policy makers and practitioners. The report finds that while TIF has the potential to draw investment into neglected places, it has not accomplished the goal of promoting economic development in most cases. First implemented in the 1950s, TIF funds economic development within a defined district by earmarking increases in future property tax revenues that result from increases in real estate values in the district. The tax revenue can be used for public infrastructure or to compensate private developers for their investments, but TIF is prone to several pitfalls: it often captures some revenues that would have been generated through normal appreciation in property values, it can be exploited by cities to obtain revenues that would otherwise go to overlying government entities such as school districts, and it can make cities' financial decisions less transparent by separating them from the normal budget process. The report recommends several ways that state and local policy makers can reform TIF practices going forward.
Download or read book State Taxation Policy written by Michael Barker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the problems of state governments in coping with contemporary issues of redesigning taxation policies to encourage economic growth.
Download or read book Economic Development written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been an increasing awareness in the United States that taxation may play an important role in influencing land use. This awareness includes a recognition of certain undesirable consequences of past Federal, State, or local tax policies and practices. Although there is no single overall Federal policy on the use of public or private land, the Federal Government has a special interest in the effect of taxes on land use. One of the most important sources of State and local revenues is property taxes which generally consists of a dual tax levied on the land and its improvements. The present system of property taxation tends to overtax improvements and undertax land. This provides a disincentive to maintain or improve urban property or develop urban land to its highest use. Property taxes on agricultural land, if assessed on the basis of potential market value, can be a heavy burden on the owner. A 1973 study showed, in several cities, a systematic overassessment of properties in blighted and declining neighborhoods and an underassessment of properties in stable and improving neighborhoods. The study concluded that the most urgent property tax reform is to equalize effective tax rates across neighborhoods within the same city to share the costs of public services more evenly and not penalize deteriorating neighborhoods. Major issues that need to be dealt with include: a need for coordinated action by all concerned Federal agencies to harmonize tax policies with national policy objectives, identification of inconsistencies between tax provisions and specific national goals and programs, and development of alternative strategies to achieve national objectives.
Download or read book States Cities and the Marketplace of Municipal Economic Development Policy written by Daniel Bliss and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholarly literature on economic development is replete with analysis of best practices, including how to lure businesses to one's community or develop businesses that are already present; what kinds of tax and regulatory regimes are favorable to economic development; and how different types of local taxation affect the way in which land is used for economic development. Additionally, a broad swathe of literature in urban studies views local economic development through the prism of globalization and deregulation, and how these broader trends in the national and world economy limit the variety of policies that can be implemented locally. This paper will shed light on a more structural question that places politics ahead of economics - how the political and institutional context within which local government operates affects the scale and choice of economic development policy. State governments provide that context in the US, and their policies, laws and constitutions determine the level and type of taxes and state aid that local places depend upon, whether or not municipalities receive need-based financial support from their state government, and even the extent to which policy-making power is devolved to municipalities. This dynamic significantly impacts the extent to which local places must actively intervene in the marketplace to ensure healthy expansion of their tax base. Accordingly, the paper tests two key outcomes of economic development policy - the level of economic development spending, and the extent to which communities are channeling this spending in the form of direct assistance to business or business-related infrastructure - according to several key state and local policies that may impact such policy and spending levels. These explanatory variables include the presence and level of redistributive, need-based state aid to local government; the presence and level of revenue sharing from the state; the presence or absence of municipal and/or county sales taxes; the form of local government and variations in the state regime of economic development funding. In particular, the paper tests the hypothesis that communities in states with redistributive approaches to revenue sharing spend far less on economic development assistance to private business than those in states with more decentralized and traditional forms of funding local government.
Download or read book State Tax Policy written by David Brunori and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects written by Margery Austin Turner and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brings policymakers, practitioners, and scholars up to speed on the state of knowledge on urban and regional policy issues. Conceptualizes fresh thinking of different aspects (economic development, education, land use), presenting main themes and implications and identifying gaps to fill for successful formulation and implementation of urban and regional policy"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Dilemmas of Urban Economic Development written by Richard D. Bingham and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997-04-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is local economic development a "zero-sum game"? How do we know that "but for the incentives" the development would not have occurred? How important is "quality of life" in location decisions and local economic development? Is industry targeting a viable economic development strategy? This book tackles these and many other significant questionsùfrom more than one perspective. Dilemmas of Urban Economic Development assesses the "state of the art" of the field of urban economic development. Each chapter addresses a particularly pertinent issue in economic development. Following each chapter are commentariesùone written by an academic addressing research methodology and the other by a practitioner addressing both the question and the evidence. The chapters are concluded with the author of each chapter responding directly to the issues raised by the commentators. The result is a productive dialogue between academics, practitioners, and citizens concerned with economic development.
