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Challenges to the Ideal Property Tax

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  • Donald J. Reeb
  • Louis R. Tomson

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. In the 19th century state‐appointed tax revision commissions began to influence the reform of the property tax. By 1893, some 28 commissions had been appointed. Their remarkably similar calls for reform set the parameters for much of the academic research in the 20th century when this tax instrument was transformed from a local tax to a federal‐state‐local exaction. As now administered, the property tax is no longer a unified tax. Separate assessment criteria make it a tax on mines, utilities, business property, household personalty and on housing. The latter is modified in different ways by homestead exemption(41 states), circuit breakers (50 sates) and use of classified schedules (17 states). Along with unprofessional and inaccurate assessments as well as politicized assessment practices, this has changed the tax to a general title for disparate fiscal activities in the 68,000 jurisdictions that use the property tax.

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  • Donald J. Reeb & Louis R. Tomson, 1985. "Challenges to the Ideal Property Tax," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(4), pages 463-478, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:44:y:1985:i:4:p:463-478
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1985.tb02380.x
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    1. Ríos, Germán & Ortega, Federico & Scrofina, J. Sebastián, 2012. "Sub-national Revenue Mobilization in Latin America and Caribbean Countries: The Case of Venezuela," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 4052, Inter-American Development Bank.

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