Search Results for: Municipal Revenues
IMFG Paper | 2015
A Good Crisis: Canadian Municipal Credit Conditions after the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy
Kyle Hanniman
Why did Canadian municipal credit conditions improved so dramatically after the 2008 recession compared to other subnational governments around the world?
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Video | 2015
Financing Local Governments in the 21st Century: Going Back to First Principles
Enid Slack
IMFG Director Enid Slack recorded a presentation for Local Government New South Wales, which was shown at the Finance Summit in Sydney, Australia on August 27, 2015. The presentation is on “Financing Local Governments in the 21st Century: Going Back to First Principles.”
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IMFG Paper | 2015
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from Around the World
Enid Slack and Richard M. Bird
This paper discusses why property taxes are particularly challenging to reform and suggests several ways in which efforts to reform this tax may become more successful in the future.
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IMFG Paper | 2015
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes?
Almos Tassonyi, Richard M. Bird, and Enid Slack
Have Greater Toronto Area (GTA) municipalities raised their property tax rates to the point at which they are likely to lose tax revenue? In other words, will further tax rate increases lower the size of the tax base? How important is tax competition between municipalities in the GTA?
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Presentation | 2015
Financing Metropolitan Cities: Understanding the Need for Different Approaches and Strategies
Enid Slack
Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack at the International Property Tax Conference on Sustainable Strategies for Local Revenue Mobilization.
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Presentation | 2015
Enough Talk: The Case for Permitting New Municipal Revenue Tools
Enid Slack
Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the OGRA/ROMA Combined Conference, Toronto, February 23, 2015.
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Presentation | 2015
Land Value Capture in Canada: Some Applications
David Amborski
Generally understood as a way of allowing the public to benefit from rising land values that result from government investments in infrastructure, or from administrative or regulatory changes in land uses, land value capture can take many different forms. In this presentation, David Amborski discussed the use of land value capture in Canada.
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Presentation | 2015
Value Capture: A Land Based Tool to Finance Urban Development
Martim Smolka
Generally understood as a way of allowing the public to benefit from rising land values that result from government investments in infrastructure, or from administrative or regulatory changes in land uses, land value capture can take many different forms. In this presentation, Martim Smolka spoke about the theory and practice of land value capture as it has been implemented in Latin America.
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