Property Tax Conference - View the Tentative Schedule

The property tax continues to be among the most recommended choices for enhancing sub-national government tax autonomy in developed, developing and transitional countries, and in fact is one of the most important sources of sub-national revenue in many countries. From October 16-17, 2006 the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University held a conference in Atlanta on the topic of “Making the Property Tax Work in Developing and Transitional Countries.” At that conference, a number of authors contributed papers that tried to explain why, despite the enormous amounts of time and resources invested in property tax overhauls and reforms in many of these countries, there have been very few successes. The papers from this conference are forthcoming in LILP volume.

An important outcome of the 2006 Conference was the realization that more research is needed on several issues regarding property taxation which are of critical importance for deciding what form of property tax should be used. As a result, we are holding a second conference on “What Role for Property Taxes?”