Incentive Taxation
Urban Rejuvenation
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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, 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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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. |
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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. |
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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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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. |
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Josh: Posted on Monday, January 07, 2013 5:33 PM
Story One - Take a Peep at This Our perceptive friends at Keystone Politics, have posted an observationabout the latest embarrassment on the Philadelphia land-use front. Long story short, for years a patch of Market Street has been infested (literally and figuratively) by some low-rise, low-rent, low class buildings housing one of the few porno "palaces" left in Philadelphia. The anchor of the Keystone post is an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer by the redoubtable |
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jrv: Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:46 PM
Council member Keith Bromley marked the difficulty of the achievement by highlighting the trouble so many other cities run into trying to pass a balanced budget, saying,"You look at other communities. They haven't been able to do this. It's a significant thing for us." December 2012
Since 1991, the city of Titusville Pennsylvania, the city of the third class in the northwest corner of the state has used land value tax as its primary source of municipal revenue. So far, through two recessions and a general innervation of the Northeast states, Titusville has achieved what some might think is boring, but any municipal government would love: stable revenues with no need for tax increases. |
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Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2012 4:27 PM
Three Cheers for Clairton UrbanTools' parent, the Center for the Study of Economics is happy to make the theoretical, as well as the empirical case that land value tax helps communities directly to rebound and recohere. |
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jrv: Posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:29 PM
What properties are most often exempt? Generally property owned by charitable organizations (Code section 501(c)(3)), Public charities, Private foundations, Social welfare organizations (section 501(c)(4)), Agricultural/horticultural organizations (section 501(c)(5)), Labororganizations (section 501(c)(5)) and Business leagues (trade associations |
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