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...

The authors look at state and local property taxes on business, which are estimated to be 71 percent of the state and local taxes imposed on business capital. States must weigh the tax burdens they place on businesses against the jobs that businesses create, the authors say

In response to concerns over funding for school construction, the state of Texas has implemented two programs to assist school districts with construction related debt. This paper examines whether these programs have accomplished their objectives of reducing property taxes (the EDA program) and...