Abstract
This article examines four types of aid programs to thirty‐nine large U.S. cities federal revenue sharing, federal categorical aid, state general aid, and state categorical aid. The central finding is that there is significant variation in the magnitude of property tax reduction resulting from different types of state general aid. Property tax credits and exemptions are less effective approaches in reducing local property taxes than are state lump‐sum aid or city use of piggybacked taxes Categorical state and federal aid mostly fund additional city spending and have small but important stimulative effects on the revenue side These results suggest that differences in the design of aid programs have important implications for their fiscal impact and their effectiveness in reducing property taxes.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 56-67 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Public Budgeting & Finance |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1995 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Finance
- Economics and Econometrics
- Public Administration