Analyzes how state and local governments responded to the economic conditions and political movements of the 1980's. Speculates whether the 1990's will be an extension of the 1980's, or whether there are new forces that will break these trends.

This paper examines alternative explanations for the decline over the past two decades in state corporate income taxes relative to the state economy. We employ a survey of state tax administrators, individual tax returns from Georgia and Utah, and panel data to explore the importance of tax...

Concerns over nonconformity of state tax systems mounted through the 20th century as the multistate presence of businesses expanded. Fearing federal intervention and the loss of state tax sovereignty, the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) was established in 1967 to help promote uniformity in state...

A study of the effect over time of the differential tax treatment of married and unmarried taxpayers. Measures the rate at which females marry and the timing of marriages, but finds no support for the assertion that the marriage tax negatively affects the timing of marriages.

We estimate the costs of performing property tax as-sessments using a translog cost function over a sample of 138 county-level assessment offices in Georgia. We find that there are substantial economies of scale. For example, computed at the sample means, a ten percent increase in the volume of...