Property Taxation
In most countries, property taxes are the most important type of revenue local governments can collect. They can generate the funds needed to provide critical local services like buses, garbage collection, and sanitation facilities.Â
But property tax performance ranges between 10 and 20% of target revenues and many potential taxpayers are left out of the tax base. Often, large and modern buildings pay little more in taxes than simple structures. Â
Some of these problems are technical, but the greatest challenges are political.  So, how can governments identify all properties, find simpler ways to value them, set up effective payment systems and encourage compliance?
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In most low-income countries, property tax performance as a percentage of GDP oscillates between:
The administration of the property tax consists of five technical steps listed below, except one, which is:
Property tax is important for local governments for the outlined reason below:
"Property taxes should be easy to collect, as property is visible and immovable – and collection will increase over time with property values."
After the implementation of a property tax reform, revenues are expected to increase five-fold in the following city:
Information technology has enormous potential to improve property tax performance but have been frequently unsuccessful because of the following reason:
What, among the following factors, can increase taxpayers’ trust and compliance?
Which of the following cities has tested the points-based methodology as a system for valuing properties
