Amendment 3 would mean most homeowners pay less in property taxes – but that may not end up significantly lowering their costs.
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Florida’s population boom has fizzled to just 0.9% growth as domestic migration slows to a trickle.
The aim was to increase the city’s own source revenue by improving fairness, transparency, and compliance while modernising outdated systems.
Louisiana’s governor made it easier for companies to receive property tax breaks – and schools will likely pay the price.
Labour’s 2021 property tax changes were meant to lower the cost of housing. But without a proper capital gains tax it only hurt investors and renters, and made the tax system overall less coherent.
Forget wealth or capital gains taxes, a straight tax on housing equity – exempting most homeowners – would be a simple and efficient way to break the circuit of inequality.
Neither NSW Labor nor the NSW Coalition is actually proposing to axe stamp duty. Neither are any of the other states or territories, apart from the ACT.
The practice of using electricity revenue surpluses to fund other municipal services is running out of road.
How did Alaska, one of the richest states in the Union, end up with budget cuts that lawmakers on both sides say could wreck the state’s future? One answer’s found in three letters: PFD.
The conventional case for swapping stamp duty for land tax will boost the economy has weak underpinnings.
In 1978, Californians voted to pass Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes and ushered in an era of underinvestment, ending the ‘California dream’ for many.
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