This monograph offers a detailed analysis of the creation, pilot implementation, and possible wide adoption of the real property tax at the local level in China. Starting in 2003, as China’s economy gradually recovered from the Asian financial crisis that started in 1998, the real property...

Some state and local governments continue to consider moving from income and property taxes, respectively, towards consumption taxes. Since the mid-1970s Georgia's local governments have had the option to substitute sales taxes for a portion of property tax receipts; the adoption of local option...