The impact of population growth on residential property taxes: a modest start at incorporating distributional impacts into fiscal impact studies

Shepard C. Buchanan and Bruce A. Weber

No 291638, WAEA/ WFEA Conference Archive (1929-1995) from Western Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: Distribution of the tax impacts of population growth is explicitly incorporated into a fiscal model of Oregon local governments. Regression results suggest that, while levies are inelastic with respect to population, the elasticity of residential property values causes residential property taxes to increase more than proportionally with increases in population.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Financial Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12
Date: 1979-07
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.291638

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