TRUE PROPERTY TAX RATES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1922-49*

1953 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-64
Author(s):  
Colin D. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
True Property

SPECIES OF PROPERTY: THE AMERICAN PROPERTY-TAX UNIFORMITY CLAUSES RECONSIDERED

2001 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 974-1008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin L. Einhorn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
State Constitutions ◽  
Uniform Property ◽  
The U.S

Economic historians have traced the origin of the uniform property tax in the United States to the insertion of uniformity clauses into state constitutions in the Northwest and to efforts to tax commercial wealth. This article shows that the tax was created by legislation in the Northeast and that the first constitutional clauses were adopted in the South to protect slaveholders. It is time for historians of the U.S. political economy to abandon the dated paradigms of the “progressive history” tradition.

Government and Fiscal Policy in American Economic History

2018 ◽  
pp. 194-224
Author(s):  
John Joseph Wallis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Payroll Taxes ◽  
The Third ◽  
State And Local

Over the last 225 years, government finances in the United States have gone through three distinct stages. In the first stage, 1790–1850, state governments actively pursued policies to promote economic development and financed them from revenues from state investments. In the second, 1850–1930, local governments became the most important level of government, as measured by revenues and expenditures, and revenues shifted toward the property tax. In the third period, 1930 to the present, the national government became the most active and largest level of government, financed through income and payroll taxes, and developed an extensive network of grants to state and local governments. The chapter tracks the changes in sources of revenues and purpose of expenditures, with specific attention paid to military spending over the entire period.

The Classified Property Tax in the United States

1929 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 453
Author(s):  
J. M. Maguire ◽  
Simeon Elbridge Leland
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
The United States

Have Taxes Led Government Expenditures? The United States as a Test Case

1985 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
George M. Von Furstenberg ◽  
R. Jeffery Green ◽  
Jin-Ho Jeong
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reduced Form ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Full Information Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Endogenous Variables ◽  
Causality Tests ◽  
Past Data

ABSTRACTThis paper explores intertemporal relations between innovations in government receipts and expenditures, by type and in total, at federal and state-local levels in the United States over the period 1955–82. A structural model is specified with tax and spending components as endogenous variables. After estimation with full information maximum likelihood techniques, residuals derived from the reduced form equations are used in causality tests. These tests show that where there is an indication of causality, spending tends to lead taxes. The lesson learned from past data thus appears to be that changing aggregate tax rates does not cause spending to change. Tax initiatives provide little leverage if changes in the growth of government are intended.

Zipf's Law, Pareto's Law, and the Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuhei Aoki ◽  
Makoto Nirei
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Zipf’S Law ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Productivity Shocks ◽  
Zipf's Law ◽  
Top Incomes ◽  
Pareto’S Law

We construct a tractable neoclassical growth model that generates Pareto's law of income distribution and Zipf's law of the firm size distribution from idiosyncratic, firm-level productivity shocks. Executives and entrepreneurs invest in risk-free assets, as well as their own firms' risky stocks, through which their wealth and income depend on firm-level shocks. By using the model, we evaluate how changes in tax rates can account for the evolution of top incomes in the United States. The model matches the decline in the Pareto exponent of the income distribution and the trend of the top 1 percent income share in recent decades. (JEL D31, H24, L11)

scholarly journals The Effect of Changes in Manufacturing Employment on Real Estate Tax Rates in Rural Communities of Pennsylvania

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-129
Author(s):  
Donald J. Epp ◽  
William C. Bates
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Public Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Manufacturing Employment ◽  
Real Estate Tax

Rural communities in Pennsylvania, as well as in many other parts of the United States, have exhibited a great deal of variation in population trends in recent years. Many rural communities have experienced a declining population along with a decreasing employment base. This causes problems of finding new sources of employment as well as providing educational and other public services that are adequate for their remaining population but are financed by a decreasing fiscal base. On the other hand, many rural communities have experienced a new spurt of economic and population growth resulting in a need for additional public services. While the particular problems to be faced are different depending on whether the community is growing or declining, they each have their own peculiar types of problems.

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