Land Value Tax Resources

The report is designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice by combining research findings, case studies, and contributions from scholars in a variety of academic disciplines, and from professional practitioners, local officials, and citizens in diverse communities.

Rick Rybeck, Director of Just Economics, a firm helps communities harmonize economic incentives with public policy

The analysis shows that if the city were to adopt a land value tax in the context of its current restrictive land use practices, this new tax regime would be unlikely to increase the city's housing supply

The study examines accessibility and its importance in assessing transportation performance and in creating a sustainable transportation funding source.

More and more communities are considering reviving an old tax idea that's been tried in only a few places. Like most municipalities, Millbourne relied heavily on property taxes. The city taxed land and the buildings on top of the land at the same rate, which is typical for cities across the country.

With over 90% of the property owners in the City of Harrisburg, the two-tiered tax rate system actually saves money over what would otherwise be a single tax system that is currently in use in nearly all municipalities in Pennsylvania.
This article was published in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, April, 1997 (41 East 72nd St., NYC, NY, 10021) and is a slightly revised version of her talk at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College conference on "Land, Wealth, and Poverty" held at Annandale-on-Hudson, NY on November 2 - 4, 1995.

This report is an analysis of graded property taxes and pure land taxes. A number of Pennsylvania cities other than Pittsburgh have used a graded tax at various times, and their experiences offer a further opportunity to study the effect of split rate taxation.

Pennsylvania is the only state government in the U.S. to enable split-rate property taxation among its local governments. Using the Pennsylvania Case Files to Understand the Slow, Uneven Progress of Land Value Taxation.

The study consists of model simulations of tax shift progressing from the present conventional tax to real market value assessments and land value taxation in two contrasting Portland communities.

An urgency to address aesthetic, economic, environmental and social issues has prompted renewed interest in Henry George, the nineteenth-century political economist and land reformer, and specifically in the idea and merits of land value taxation and some possible forms in which a land value tax (LVT) might be implemented. This article discusses LVT, transect-based zoning, and other possible approaches using land value tax theory.

This Washington Examiner news article discusses the 2011 implementation of a land value tax in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

In this article, the author describes some practical theories on land value taxation and reviews how the state of Pennsylvania has dealt with this type of taxation.

This local news article discusses the City Council decision to discontinue the land value tax and revert to traditional property value taxation.

This article describes how land-value taxation would best be implemented in the United States.

This article discusses the merits of modifying the existing system of taxing property for transportation financing by employing split rate taxes for private property. The authors' results show that split rate taxes may lead to higher density of development due to lower taxes on building assets compared to adjacent land.

This article examines the efficiency of the land value tax as well as land value tax as a substitute for other taxes.