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 relationship between the local option sales tax (LOST) and property taxes and own source revenue is not well documented in the literature. This may be due in part to the aggregated nature of the data, which fails to capture different motivations for adoption of LOSTs. Using county-level data...

The federal income tax laws have always included gain from "dealings in property" as an item of gross income, and probably only the payment of wages rivals the sale of property in fundamental importance to taxpayers generally. Nevertheless, the courts and the Internal Revenue Service have yet to...

Service tax is imposed on renting of immovable property for use in business or commerce. Residential properties are not subject to tax. This article examines use of residential property partly for business or commerce and service tax implications thereon