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Land value capture, explained

May 23, 2022 LPS Alliance

What is “land value capture”? How does it work? And why have so many communities across the world applied this financial approach? Land value return is based on a simple core premise: public action should […]

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Roy Kelly Moderates 6th African Tax Research Network Congress

October 26, 2021 LPS Alliance

Duke University Professor Roy Kelly moderated the “Tenets of a Successful Property Tax Reform for Africa” session at the 6th African Tax Research Network Congress (ATRN). The virtual three-day congress was held September 6-8 and focused on […]

Africa

Central-local government relations in property tax administration in Tanzania

December 12, 2020 LPS Alliance

There has been considerable emphasis in the property tax literature on principles for what taxes should be assigned either to the central government or to lower levels of government. In contrast, intergovernmental cooperation in revenue […]

Decentralization

World Bank Property Tax Diagnostic Manual

November 21, 2020 LPS Alliance

The recurrent, annual property tax has tremendous potential for mobilizing own-source revenues, primarily for local governments. The property tax generates about 0.3–0.6 percent of GDP for low- and middle-income countries, 1.1 percent in higher-income (OECD) […]

Fiscal Decentralization

Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries: Development from Below

May 17, 2018 LPS Alliance

As experience with decentralization has accumulated, perceptions of both the problems that often accompany decentralization and the best ways to deal with them have evolved. This book draws on experiences in developing countries to bridge […]

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