Many developing countries have struggled with realizing sufficient revenues from property tax. However, as developing countries experience economic growth, they are also seeing property values rising, providing a bigger tax base from which to realize revenues. Technology has made tax...

Direct voter involvement (or even the potential for direct involvement) in policymaking through initiatives, referenda, and other mechanisms has forever altered the governance landscape in many municipalities. Nowhere is this more evident than the causes and consequences of tax and expenditure...

We construct Laffer curves to evaluate the efficiency of local property tax collection based on a micro-level panel dataset referring to 2013–2016 and obtained from the Jerusalem municipality. Unlike previous literature, we apply a tractable ad hoc methodology, which, compared with the...