Search Results for: Municipal Revenues

Presentation | 2010

Municipal Property Tax Policy

Enid Slack
Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack at the IPTI Workshop II: Municipal Property Tax Policy and Rate Modeling, in Adelaide, Australia.
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Other | 2009

Earmarked Grants and Accountability in Government

Richard M. Bird and Michael Smart
The conventional theory of fiscal federalism, which sees earmarking largely as a means to deal with positive spillovers in local expenditures, explains neither the level of such grants nor the trends over time. Nor can it readily account for the existence of non-matching, but still categorical, block grants. In this paper, we explore several alternative perspectives that interpret earmarking as a response to information failures between governments and, even more fundamentally, to accountability issues that arise between governments as well as between governments and voters.
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Other | 2009

Provincial-Local Fiscal Transfers in Canada: Provincial Control Trumps Local Accountability

Enid Slack
This paper provides a case study of provincial-local transfers in Canada and evaluates the extent to which they are designed to increase local accountability or maintain provincial control. The evaluation is based, in part, on a review of trends in provincial transfers to municipalities and school boards over the last 20 years and, in part, on an assessment of the extent to which 3 grants are designed to satisfy the standard rationales for intergovernmental transfers found in the traditional fiscal federalism literature (vertical fiscal imbalance, horizontal fiscal imbalance, and externalities) or political rationales.
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