scholarly journals House Prices & Property Tax Revenues During the Boom & Bust: Evidence from Small-Area Estimates

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B Goodman
Keyword(s):  
House Prices ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
Effective Property ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
House Values ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
Home Values

Although the Great Recession put the U.S. economy into a tailspin, we know little about how the changes in house prices influenced property tax collections. Using local level housing data from Zillow matched to property tax data from 1998 to 2012, two questions are examined. First, the elasticity of property tax revenue with respect to house values is estimated. Second, the timing of this elasticity is determined. The analysis rules out that local policymakers capture the entire increase of house value in property tax revenues but unable to rule out that increases in house values are completely offset by changes in effective property tax rates. Decreases in values have an elasticity between 0.3 and 0.4 and take three years for changes in values to impact property tax revenues. While property tax collections declined, local policymakers adjusted effective millage rates such that revenues did not decline as much as home values.

scholarly journals USING PARTICIPATORY APPROACH TO IMPROVE AVAILABILITY OF SPATIAL DATA FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT

2016 ◽  
Vol III-4/W1 ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
T. Kliment ◽  
V. Cetl ◽  
H. Tomič ◽  
J. Lisiak ◽  
M. Kliment
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Participatory Gis

Nowadays, the availability of authoritative geospatial features of various data themes is becoming wider on global, regional and national levels. The reason is existence of legislative frameworks for public sector information and related spatial data infrastructure implementations, emergence of support for initiatives as open data, big data ensuring that online geospatial information are made available to digital single market, entrepreneurs and public bodies on both national and local level. However, the availability of authoritative reference spatial data linking the geographic representation of the properties and their owners are still missing in an appropriate quantity and quality level, even though this data represent fundamental input for local governments regarding the register of buildings used for property tax calculations, identification of illegal buildings, etc. We propose a methodology to improve this situation by applying the principles of participatory GIS and VGI used to collect observations, update authoritative datasets and verify the newly developed datasets of areas of buildings used to calculate property tax rates issued to their owners. The case study was performed within the district of the City of Požega in eastern Croatia in the summer 2015 and resulted in a total number of 16072 updated and newly identified objects made available online for quality verification by citizens using open source geospatial technologies.

scholarly journals Wirkung einer Feiertagsbereinigung des Länderfinanzausgleichs – eine empirische Analyse des deutschen Finanzausgleichs

2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Broer
Keyword(s):  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Fiscal Equalization ◽  
Ability To Pay ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
Empirische Analyse ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Right ◽  
Fiscal Equalization System

AbstractIn the German system of fiscal equalization Länder (States) with tax revenue below the average get payments from the Lander above the average. The difference between the average and the own tax revenue per capita will be compensated up to 75 %. To prevent Länder from getting payments form other Länder by lowering their own tax rates and to get the right information about their ability to pay, the revenue of taxes with taxing autonomy is standardized. But Länder could also influence their tax revenues by the number of holidays, each Land decides on its own. A Land with many own holidays will get lower tax revenues and higher payments in the fiscal equalization system than the same Land with no extra holidays. To collect the real ability to pay of the Lander in the fiscal equalization system, it is necessary to eliminate the effect of the different number of holidays. This paper shows an approach to neutralize this effect and calculates its impact to the payments of each Land in the fiscal equalization system.

scholarly journals ANALISIS POTENSI, EFEKTIFITAS DAN KONTRIBUSI PAJAK HOTEL TERHADAP PENDAPATAN ASLI DAERAH KABUPATEN SLEMAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rofian Pujiasih ◽  
Dewi Kusuma Wardani
Keyword(s):  
Data Use ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Potential Effectiveness ◽  
Local Revenue ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
The Government

This study aims to determine the potency, effectiveness and contribution tax in Sleman district. To calculate the potential and effectiveness of hotel tax used several variables: number of to define average, the number of days in a year, and hotel tax rates. As for the contribution of data use hotel tax revenues and actual revenues revenue. This study used descriftif research and the method of documentation that is by collecting data that is used to collect secondary data from reports of hotel tax revenue, the rules relating to tax hotel also see and obtain reference books on hotel tax, reports the results of previous studies and scientific papers .These results indicate that the potential for very large hotel tax receipts well above realization Taxes, effectiveness and contribution no hotel taxes low. The results of this study also shows that the potential is not being realized Taxes optimally and there are some things that need to be re- correction and should be addressed by the government of Sleman Regency . Keywords : Potential, Effectiveness, Contributions, hotel taxes and local revenue ( PAD ) .

scholarly journals Heterogeneous Monetary Policy Transmission in the US Housing Market

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
Maria Christidou ◽  
Panagiotis Theodore Konstantinou ◽  
Costas Roumanias
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
House Prices ◽  
National Level ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Housing Investment ◽  
Policy Transmission ◽  
The Us

We assess the effects of monetary policy on real house prices and housing investment across the US states during the period 1983-2008. We find that an expansionary monetary shock generates higher housing investment and house prices at the national level. At the state level, however the responses of housing investment and house prices differ from the nation-wide responses. We relate this heterogeneity to various observable factors such as property tax rates, howeownership, income inequality, poverty and demographic factors. All these factors are crucial in explaining the heterogeneity of the state-level responses.

Proposition 13: An Equilibrium Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayşe İmrohoroğlu ◽  
Kyle Matoba ◽  
Şelale Tüzel
Keyword(s):  
House Prices ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
The United States ◽  
Equilibrium Analysis ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Welfare Gains ◽  
Proposition 13 ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Tax Changes

There are many federal, state, and local laws that distort housing decisions and prices. However, it is often difficult to tease out the quantitative impact of such policies. In this paper, we examine the implications of one of the most significant tax changes initiated by voters in the United States on house prices, housing turnover, and household welfare. In 1978 California passed Proposition 13, which lowered property tax rates and restricted future property tax increases. We find that the introduction of Proposition 13 leads to a 15 percent increase in house prices and a 3.3 percent decrease in the moving rates. The elimination of Proposition 13, however, leads to modest changes in house prices and mobility but sizable welfare gains. (JEL E13, G21, H71, R21, R31)

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