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Do Roads Pay for Themselves? Setting the Record Straight on Transportation Funding [PDF]
, 2010 Analyzes the history, political context, and future plausibility of the claim that highways pay for themselves through "user fees" such as gasoline taxes.
Benjamin Davis +2 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract While the physical and mental health benefits of greenspace exposure are well documented, ethnic minority communities in the United Kingdom continue to engage with these environments at disproportionately lower rates. This persistent disparity points to an oversight in existing literature, specifically regarding how these communities navigate ...
Andrew K. Palmer +5 more
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Steady as She Goes: State and Local Government Revenues and Spending in Oregon [PDF]
, 2007 State and local governments raise and spend money primarily to educate our children, keep our communities safe, arbitrate disputes through the courts, and provide health care and other services for our most vulnerable neighbors.
Michael Leachman
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Economics. Finances. LawThe paper analyses the impact of local taxes and fees on the financial sustainability of territorial communities. The concept of financial sustainability is considered in relation to financial management, investment planning and debt control. It is noted that in the context of finance, the concept of ‘financial sustainability’ is identified with ...
Oksana ZAKHIDNA +2 more
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When consumers can decide not to pay a tax: enforcing and pricing urban on-street parking space [PDF]
Governments may be hindered in setting taxes on markets in which the consumer can choose to consume the good but not pay the tax. An example is urban on-street parking.
Edward Calthrop
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“Green” Transportation Taxes and Fees: A Survey Of Californians, MTI Report 08-05 [PDF]
, 2009 This report explores public opinion on a new and promising concept—green transportation taxes and fees. These are taxes and fees set at variable rates, with higher rates for more polluting vehicles and lower rates for those that pollute less.
Agrawal, Asha Weinstein +2 more
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The Fargo‐Moorhead Diversion: Flood Protection or Sprawl Promotion?
River Research and Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Urban growth and development opportunities are needed worldwide, but growth and development must be hazard‐aware and should follow smart‐growth principles. The $2.89 billion Fargo‐Moorhead Area Diversion Project was designed to provide flood protection following damaging floods on the Red River of the North.
Nicholas Pinter +2 more
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Economics. Finances. LawThe paper is devoted to the study of the experience of local tax administration in advanced European countries. The paper further delves into the intricacies of the local tax administration by examining the impact of cultural, economic, and political factors on the effectiveness of tax models in Germany, France, and Poland.
Tetiana BUTURLAKINA, Pavlo LOHVINOV
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, 2018 The article analyzes the fiscal significance of the payment for land in the formation of the financial basis of local self-government, identifies the reasons for failing to receive this type of revenues into local budgets and reserves their increase, and also investigates the impact of fiscal tax innovations on strengthening the role of land payment as
Diegtyar A.O, Goncharenko M.V.
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The reform of fiscal systems in developing and emerging market economies : a federalism perspective [PDF]
The authors review experiences with fiscal federalism in industrial countries and present a framework for a reform of fiscal systems in developing and transition economies.
Boadway, Robin +2 more
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