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The Changing Property Tax and State-Local Relations

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  • Alvin D. Sokolow

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The substantial transfer of fiscal power to state government, undermining local government autonomy, characterizes the course of state-local relations in the last quarter of the twentieth century in the United States. Central to this shift is diminished local control of the property tax, a result of the tax limitations adopted in most states since the 1970s. This article argues that control of the property tax is critical to the workings of local representative democracy, affecting both the discretion of elected officials and participation of citizens. It presents both quantitative and qualitative evidence of the centralization trend, including changes in property-tax flows and state finances affecting local governments, an analysis of the comparative severity of property-tax limitations, changes in K-12 education financing, and local consequences of the tax limitations. Copyright , Oxford University Press.

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  • Alvin D. Sokolow, 0. "The Changing Property Tax and State-Local Relations," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 28(1), pages 165-187.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:28:y::i:1:p:165-187
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    1. Paul G. Lewis, 2001. "Retail Politics: Local Sales Taxes and the Fiscalization of Land Use," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 15(1), pages 21-35, February.
    2. Racheva-Sarabian, Anna & Ryvkin, Dmitry & Semykina, Anastasia, 2015. "The default of special district financing: Evidence from California," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(C), pages 37-48.
    3. Zdražil Pavel & Pernica Bohuslav, 2021. "Stimuli contributing to local property taxation – with the focus on spatial effects of industry and functional urban areas," Central European Journal of Public Policy, Sciendo, vol. 15(5), pages 55-66, June.

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