This report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property taxbase--a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendationsfor reform at the local and state level, as well as insight and analysis to help policymakers across the country protect...

Because of tax relief measures, Texas school districts have lost a little over $4 billion in tax revenues, or 23.4 percent of their tax revenue potential, the author says. Tax relief measures for agricultural property have the greatest impact on the poorest school districts, while residential...

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...