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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Effects of vacation properties on local education budgets

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2014
Residents of school districts with large percentages of vacation properties have the opportunity to export a portion of their school taxes onto the owners of those vacation properties. Those property owners are unlikely to consume educational services or
Jason Giersch
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Which Communities should be afraid of Mobility? The Effects of Agglomeration Economies on the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Local Taxes [PDF]

This paper examines the effects of agglomeration economies (AE) on the sensitivity of firm location to tax differentials. An initial reading of the story suggests that, with AE, when a firm moves into a community attracted by a tax reduction, other firms
Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Albert Solé-Ollé
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Financial Autonomy of Municipalities – Microeconomic Backgrounds [PDF]

Societas et Iurisprudentia, 2016
Financial autonomy is an important aspect of the local government existence. In the paper there is analysed a sample of the Slovak municipalities on which a modified methodology of quantification of municipal financial autonomy has been applied. The same
Ladislav Poliak
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The Local Decision to Tax: Evidence from Large U.S. Cities [PDF]

The structure of local taxation is an important determinant of the fiscal performance of decentralized public economies. In contrast to our understanding of local government spending, however, we know surprisingly little about how cities and states set ...
Robert P. Inman
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Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
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The Effect of Tax, General Allocation Fund, and Retribution on Regional Expenditure

The Spirit of Society Journal: International Journal of Society Development and Engagement
Regional autonomy gives local governments the authority to manage their finances, including regional expenditure, in order to achieve national goals. Effective and efficient regional spending is the key to regional development and improving community ...
Mohammad Wasil
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Taxation of Historical and Artistic Real Estate

Prawo Budżetowe Państwa i Samorządu, 2018
The article presents general aspects of the taxation of historical and artistic real estate. It includes a few kinds of taxes. Firstly an income tax derived from ownership of properties of historical and artistic interest is discussed.
Maria Pia Nastri
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State and local taxation [PDF]

State and local taxation comprises those taxes that are collected at the sub-federal government levels in order to finance state and local public services, assigning discretion in the determination of rates and bases of these taxes to sub-federal ...
Friedrich Schneider, Lars P Feld
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