Taxes on real estate property have been identified as a source of income whose potential is currently underused by many countries. Indonesia has recently decentralised the property tax to the local level, but has this led to a better use of the tax potential from this source? A look at revenue...

Some of the nation's leading scholars of government and public finance provide theirviews on the consequences of a declining property tax base. They show local governmentofficials and others how property tax revenue--or the lack of such revenue--affectslocal autonomy, decision making, and the...