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What Role for Property Taxes?
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 |
6:30 PM |
Welcome Cocktail Hour |
7:30 PM |
Dinner (Waterside Restaurant) |
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Monday, April 28, 2008 |
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast (Waterside Restaurant) |
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM |
Welcome (Rhododendron Room) |
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Session 1 |
9:10 AM - 9:40 AM
(30 minutes)
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Athiphat Muthitacharoen and George Zodrow
School of Social Sciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas |
| "The Efficiency Costs of a Local Property Tax" |
9:40 AM - 9:55 AM
(15 minutes)
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Discussant: Jim Alm
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia |
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM
(30 minutes) |
Bill Fox and John Deskins
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee and Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska |
| "Measuring Behavioral Responses" |
10:25 AM - 10:40 AM
(15 minutes) |
Discussant: David Sjoquist
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia |
10:40 AM - 10:55 AM
(15 minutes) |
Open Discussion |
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10:55 AM - 11:15 AM |
Break |
Session 2 |
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
(30 minutes)
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Alan Dornfest
Idaho State Tax Commission, County Support Division, Boise, Idaho |
| "Costs and Benefits of Revaluation: What is the optimal revaluation policy?" |
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
(15 minutes)
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Discussant: Riel Franzsen
African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa |
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
(30 minutes) |
Michael Bell and William McCluskey
George Washington Institute of Public Policy, Washington, D.C. and School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, U.K. |
| "Rental Values vs. Capital Values" |
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
(15 minutes) |
Discussant: Oliver Oldman
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
12:45 PM - 1:00 PM
(15 minutes) |
Open Discussion |
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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
Lunch (Waterside Restaurant) |
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Note: Turn in Airport and Transport Charges to Paul Benson |
Session 3 |
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
(30 minutes)
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Roy Bahl and Sally Wallace
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia |
| "Reforming the Property Tax in Developing Countries: a New Approach" |
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
(15 minutes)
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Discussant: Gary Cornia
Marriott School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah |
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
(30 minutes) |
Terri Sexton
California State University, Sacramento, California |
| "Taxing Property Transactions vs. Taxing Property Ownership" |
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
(15 minutes) |
Discussant: Robert D. Ebel
District of Columbia Government |
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
(15 minutes) |
Open Discussion |
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3:30 PM - 3:50 PM |
Break |
Session 4 |
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
(30 minutes)
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Steven Sheffrin
College of Letters and Science, University of California, Davis, California |
| "Fairness of Market Value Property Taxation" |
4:20 PM - 4:35 PM
(15 minutes)
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Discussant: Kurt Zorn
School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana |
4:35 PM - 4:50 PM
(15 minutes) |
Open Discussion |
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5:00 PM - 5:15 PM |
Group Photo |
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6:30 PM - 8:00 PM |
Dinner (Location: TBA) |
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |
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Continental Breakfast |
Session 5 |
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
(30 minutes)
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Jacob Benoy and Michael Pagano
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| "The Political Economy of Property Taxation and Land Taxation" |
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
(15 minutes)
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Discussant: Daphne Kenyon
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
(30 minutes) |
Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Mark Rider
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia |
| "The Assignment Question: Is the Conventional Answer Correct?" |
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
(15 minutes) |
Discussant: Andrew Reschovsky
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
(15 minutes) |
Open Discussion |
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10:45 AM - 11:45 AM |
Joan Youngman
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Department of Valuation and Taxation, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Closing Discussion |
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12:00 PM |
Lunch (Waterside Restaurant) |
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