The Andrew Young School, together with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy will be hosting a conference on "Making the Property Tax Work in Developing and Transitional Countries".
The conference will be held from October 15-17, 2006 at the Evergreen Conference Resort in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
| Presentation | Section / Presentation Title / Presenter |
| Session 1: The Setting | |
| Presentation 1 | The property tax: Roots and global perspective |
| Presentation 2 | The property tax in the context of fiscal decentralization |
| Discussant | Gregory K. Ingram |
| Session 2: Fairness, Political Issues, and Scope | |
| Presentation 3 | The political challenges to (fully) using property taxes |
| Presentation 4 | Tax incidence and equity of property taxes in developing and transitional Countries Edward Sennoga, David Sjoquist and Sally Wallace |
| Presentation 5 | The role of the property tax in financing rural local governments |
| Presentation 6 | Alternate value capture instruments Steve Tsui |
| Discussant | Indira Rajamaran and Natasha Takhtarova |
| Session 3: Data Collection and Information Technology | |
| Presentation 7 | Data challenges in implementing a property tax and solutions |
| Presentation 8 | What is the appropriate role for computer-assisted valuation models in transitional and developing countries? |
| Discussant | Paul Smoke |
| Session 4: Approaches to Valuation | |
| Presentation 9 | Is area-based assessment: An alternative, an intermediate step, or an impediment to value-based taxation? |
| Presentation 10 | The feasibility of site value taxation |
| Discussant | Gary Cornia |
| Session 5: Property Rights, Collections and Enforcement . | |
| Presentation 11 | How can property rights be identified and valued in the absence of formal land markets? |
| Presentation 12 | Tribal lands and informal settlements |
| Presentation 13 | Collection and enforcement of the property tax |
| Discussant | Claudia De Cesare |
| Session 6: Lessons in Introducing Value-Based Property Taxes: The Baltic Experience | |
| Presentation 14 | Land taxation reform in Estonia |
| Presentation 15 | Property tax reform in Lithuania Albina Aleksiene and Arvidas Bagdonavicius |
| Discussant | Vytautus Sujlia |
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For more information, please contact Mr. Paul Benson.
