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Business property taxes in Ontario have fallen dramatically in the past decade, due to a series of reforms mandated by the provincial government. This paper discusses the likely impacts of the reforms on business location, wages, and land values, and the economic welfare of provincial residents.
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Baumeister’s paper suggests policy changes for using the development charge as a planning tool. Burgess reviews the risks to Canadian municipal finance from extreme weather and analyzes the financial tools that cities can use to prepare for extreme weather events.
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Presentation by IMFG Director Enid Slack on On October 4, 2012, sponsored by the Cities Centre, University of Toronto.
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Presentation by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the Property Tax Summit in Niagara Falls, Ontario on April 18, 2012.
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Drawing on his substantial knowledge of metropolitan Los Angeles' transit infrastructure and financing, Richard Katz examines the advantages and disadvantages of different revenue tools for financing transit.
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Drawing on his substantial knowledge of metropolitan Los Angeles' transit infrastructure and financing, Richard Katz examines the advantages and disadvantages of different revenue tools for financing transit.
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This paper reviews the evolution and current state of subnational taxation in five large emerging countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Nigeria—BRIC plus one. As these case studies show, intergovernmental fiscal relations in any country are inevitably both path-dependent and context-sensitive.
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The Nordic countries are small, unitary, and have largely homogeneous populations. Municipalities are the most important agents in the decentralized public sector. There are lessons to be learned from country to country in the field of local government financing, but comparisons need to be made with care.
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