Similar Search Results

The Role of Representative Agents in the Property Tax Appeals Process

Doerner, William; Ihlanfeldt, Keith - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Property tax appeals provide property owners with a mechanism to challenge their assessments and reduce their property tax bill. Appeals are frequently filed not by the homeowner but by a tax representative who often works on their behalf for a contingency fee. Using appeals from Miami-Dade...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110652

An Empirical Analysis of the Property Tax Appeals Process

Doerner, William; Ihlanfeldt, Keith - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Property tax appeals have increased dramatically at significant cost to local governments. Little is known about whether or how well the appeals process resolves potential assessment errors. This paper investigates the efficiency and equity of this process. Regarding the efficiency of correcting...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112370

Property tax in the Czech Republic and Slovakia since 1993

Sedmihradská, Lucie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In the early 1990´s it was expected that the property tax would play a significant role in the process of fiscal decentralization in the transition countries. Comparison of the development of legally granted and actually effected municipal autonomy regarding the property tax in the Czech...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257757

Tax Increment Financing in Pakistan

Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Markets fail in the provision of public goods. Public goods are non-rival and non-exclusive. It creates the problem of free riding. Hence, public goods and infrastructure is often provided by the governments. As discussed in endogenous growth models, the public infrastructure and capital goods...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258252

Public procurement: a case study of the Indian Railways

Nag, Bodhibrata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Indian Railways is one of the world’s largest public sector organizations. Its network, traffic, organization and extent of vertical integration are gigantic. This paper undertakes a critical examination of its procurement process to understand the procedures and institutional mechanisms which...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259293

Long distance coach transport in Italy: state of the art and perspectives.

Beria, Paolo; Grimaldi, Raffaele; Laurino, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Long distance coach services in Italy represent an almost unknown mode of transport to the general public, often … specifically focused on long distance coach transport in Italy, carried out by the authors (Beria et al., 2012). We provide policy …. According to our estimations, that are not present in the Italian transport statistics, the industry supplied more than 90m bus …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260746

Rethinking connectivity as interactivity: a case study of Pakistan

Haque, Nadeem; Pirzada, Ahmed; Ahmed, Vaqar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Connectivity in developing countries has traditionally been viewed in terms of investment in transport and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322888

The Impact of the Terrorist Attacks of 11 September 2001 on International Trading and Transport Activities

Walkenhorst, Peter; Dihel, Nora - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the short-term business environment of transport operators and trading companies has been … extent by the increases in frictional costs. Differences across products are due to varying ratios of transport and insurance … costs to goods-value, divergences in prevailing transport modes, and differing roles in the production process. For example …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835553

Déréglementation, sécurité et prévision d’accidents extrêmes: le cas du fret ferroviaire français

Bonache, Adrien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The freight rail deregulation have been considered, for long time, as a factor of security and safety reduction. This article means to show that, for the moment, we can't consider french freight rail deregulation have a significative impact on security and safety. So, I look if it's possible...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836030

Cost-benefit rules for transport projects when labor supply is endogenous and taxes are distortionary

Fosgerau, Mogens; Pilegaard, Ninette - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

find that the rules for leisure transport are exactly the same as in a conventional CBA that includes the marginal cost of … public funds. For business travel and commuting we find new rules as a result of the assumption that transport costs have the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836511