Georgist Conference in O'Fallon, Part Ten
Oct. 22nd, 2017 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenTo continue with Joshua Vincent's talk on "Georgist Efforts from State to State," delivered Friday, July 28, 2017, there have been things happening in Pennsylvania. Millbourne now has a zero percent rate on buildings.
School districts generally do not have the right to use land value taxation (I believe that there's an exception for third-class school districts coterminous with third-class cities), but the Upper Darby School District is seeking permission to use LVT.
The law now requires all counties to publish separate land and buildings assessments.
Then there's Altoona, where the young Turks came in (Altoona had been levying a land-only property tax for a few years). Joshua Vincent and his local ally couldn't get assessment data. They sued, and got it eight months later. Residents paid $6 million, which would have been six and a half million with both land and buildings taxed.
Altoona had outdated assessments; there was a revaluation. The new assessments had significant differences from the outdated ones, and most people would really save. The new mayor and his people said that the switch back to a land and building property tax wouldn't hurt most people. Bill Fiori (or whatever the spelling is) is a Ford dealer who owns much land in Altoona. He supported the new mayor, and they ended up regressing to a land and building property tax.
Tomorrow's jobs: In Texas, there was a court decision which may lead to an income tax. A complicated bill has been introduced to establish a statewide assessment district, instead.
We need to keep working in Connecticut. Then there's Mayor Lumumba of Jackson, Mississippi. We will work with him, participate in assessment discussion, and highlight the importance of land value taxation.
Every parcel in Texas is split into land and buildings assessments. The future of the U.S. is in Texas.
Then there was a discussion and Q&A session, which I will report on later.
School districts generally do not have the right to use land value taxation (I believe that there's an exception for third-class school districts coterminous with third-class cities), but the Upper Darby School District is seeking permission to use LVT.
The law now requires all counties to publish separate land and buildings assessments.
Then there's Altoona, where the young Turks came in (Altoona had been levying a land-only property tax for a few years). Joshua Vincent and his local ally couldn't get assessment data. They sued, and got it eight months later. Residents paid $6 million, which would have been six and a half million with both land and buildings taxed.
Altoona had outdated assessments; there was a revaluation. The new assessments had significant differences from the outdated ones, and most people would really save. The new mayor and his people said that the switch back to a land and building property tax wouldn't hurt most people. Bill Fiori (or whatever the spelling is) is a Ford dealer who owns much land in Altoona. He supported the new mayor, and they ended up regressing to a land and building property tax.
Tomorrow's jobs: In Texas, there was a court decision which may lead to an income tax. A complicated bill has been introduced to establish a statewide assessment district, instead.
We need to keep working in Connecticut. Then there's Mayor Lumumba of Jackson, Mississippi. We will work with him, participate in assessment discussion, and highlight the importance of land value taxation.
Every parcel in Texas is split into land and buildings assessments. The future of the U.S. is in Texas.
Then there was a discussion and Q&A session, which I will report on later.
