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Land and property taxes: Exploiting untapped municipal revenues

Policy brief 31 Aug 2017 Cities and Cities that Work

Authors

Paul Collier

Director, IGC and Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Oxford

Edward Glaeser

Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Tony Venables

Professor of Economics, University of Manchester

Priya Manwaring

Researcher

Michael Blake

Researcher
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Part of our Cities that Work publications, this brief outlines the importance of annual land and property tax as a source of municipal finance and explores trade-offs that policymakers face in implementing reform. It also identifies examples of best practice for reform from cities across the developing world.

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