Incentive Taxation
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Posted on Thursday, May 09, 2013 1:30 PM
Published 05/09/2013 12:00 AM
But Finizio, who took office in 2011, said that if New London were chosen to participate this time, he would focus on the downtown area and exempt waterfront properties and large lots.
"I support it because I believe it will remove one of the largest disincentives to revitalization in downtown New London," Finizio said Tuesday.
The LVT proposal is one idea that working group chairman, state Rep. Jeffrey Berger, D-Waterbury, said he would like to see passed this session. |
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jrv: Posted on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 3:04 PM
One of the best traditions still in existence from the earliest days of the American experiment are the true exercises in democracy known as town meetings.
The road to Massachusetts land value tax may run through Lanesborough.
"I am more and more convinced that, with reference to any public question, it is more important to know what the country thinks of it than what the city thinks. The city does not think much.
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Current News Item, Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy and Taxes, Land Value Tax, Massachusetts, Property Tax Reform, Economic Rent, Berkshire, Healthy Communities, Lanesborough, Smart Growth
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B. Gina Maloney: Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2013 6:58 PM
 Our team was on the move this week throughout the State of CT. The Municipal Tax Authority Working Group Meeting of April 2, 2013 provides a glimpse of the work CSE is involved in at this time Video of the meeting |
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jrv: Posted on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 2:24 PM
Glasgow: time to stop the private warehousing of land
In 1843, a newspaper named "The Economist"came into being with a mission that promisedto discuss and promote ideas of fair trade, liberal economics, free markets and issues of taxation and rent.
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Current News Item, Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy and Taxes, United Kingdom, Land Value Tax, National Tax Policy, Property Tax Reform, Economic Rent, Public Resources, Public Works, Economist, George Osborne
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jrv: Posted on Wednesday, March 06, 2013 3:08 PM
Three Cheers for Pennsylvania Land Value Tax Cities
Because UrbanTools is in Pennsylvania, it should be no surprise that land value tax is most prevalent in the Keystone state. We work all over the country in the world, but Pennsylvania is still "home." We've been proud to work with these communities, and are grateful that the outcomes have had positive effects and have helped people through hard economic times.
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Current News Item, Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy and Taxes, Land Value Tax, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Property Tax Reform, Urban Tax Policy, Urban Rejuvenation, Harrisburg, Scranton, Economic Development, Clairton
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jrv: Posted on Tuesday, March 05, 2013 5:12 PM
No More either/Or: What's Philadelphia worth?
For years Philadelphia Pennsylvania has been an outlier among American cities (and internationally) for its menu of strange taxes on business and onerous levieson residents that have savage effects upon the local economy. For years, people who think about tax issues have proposed over and over again reducing reliance on these corrosive and self-destructive levies, that have driven jobs and capital out of the city squeezing the traditional middle class in particular. |
Current News Item, Economic Policy, Land Value Tax, Property Assessment, Property Tax Reform, Philadelphia, Urban Tax Policy, Public Resources, Urban Rejuvenation, Tax Exemption and Abatment, Housing, Jimmy Tayoun, Kenyatta Johnson, Maria Quinones-Sanchez, Wilson Goode Jr.
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jrv: Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:34 PM
The expansion of land value tax from its bases in Pennsylvania cities and jurisdictions all over Australia and New Zealand, may have just taken a strong step forward in the state of Oregon, where LVT advocates have been studying the legalities and the practical administrative steps to implementationof the past decade.
The Salem Statesman Journal published a comprehensive policy pieceby Kris Nelson of Common Ground OR/WAand Tom Girhing . The op-ed provides solid theoretical underpinnings and empirical reality to make the case that Oregon cities, and indeed the whole Northwest have to join their Red State brethren and find ways to reduce traditional property taxes on labor and investment as well as pull back on taxation of wages. |
Current News Item, Economic Policy, Law and the Constitution, Fiscal Policy and Taxes, Land Value Tax, Property Tax Reform, Urban Tax Policy, Economic Rent, Public Resources, Urban Rejuvenation, Economic Development, Housing, Housing Policy, Oregon, Portland
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jrv: Posted on Friday, February 01, 2013 4:56 PM
Connecticut's 2013 General Assembly meets for a six month
session in January. Odd-numbered years
generally concentrate on local laws and statutes for municipalities and
relations with the state government in the so-called "long sessions."
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Current News Item, Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy and Taxes, Connecticut, Land Value Tax, Property Tax Reform, Urban Tax Policy, Urban Rejuvenation, Economic Development, Hartford, Martin Looney, Patricia Dillon
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jrv: Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 5:48 PM
Montréal's tax on parking lots: cause-and-effect
Montréal: land of the lots no more?
One thing city governments ( and most people) can't stand but feel helpless to remedy is the ubiquitous and metastasizing presence of surface parking lots on the most valuable land in town: center city (or Centre Ville in this case).
Almost the definition of parasitism, think of the parking lot business model as a twisted Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
1. Buy an old business building downtown. |
Current News Item, Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy and Taxes, Land Value Tax, Urban Tax Policy, Economic Rent, Public Resources, Urban Rejuvenation, Land Policy, Montreal, Parking and Transportation
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Posted on Monday, January 21, 2013 6:16 PM
2013 heralds something considered cataclysmic in
Philadelphia but is routine in the rest of the world: a new assessment for
property tax purposes. From Podunk to
Portland (Oregon or Maine), assessment officers and departments apply land and
building values to each property, the community figures out how much revenue it
needs and divides it by those values. Voilà, you get a property tax rate, and then
send out a bill.
A very little history
Nothing is ever quite that simple in the city that
UrbanTools loves. |
Current News Item, Fiscal Policy and Taxes, Land Value Tax, Pennsylvania, Property Assessment, Property Tax Reform, Philadelphia, Urban Tax Policy, Gentrification, Tax Exemption and Abatment, Land Policy
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