QUERY Land Tax Dynamics
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:31 pm
Posted by ""M. Lehmann"" <mlehmann1@austin.rr.com>
> In thread: REPLY Fraction of Projects Qualitative (SD6068) Posted by
> ""Jim Hines"" <Jim@ventanasystems.com> Maybe M. Schwant's presenter was
> referring to the number of **issues** handled informally, vs.
> formally. If so, I can report that I handle lots
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Is there any description of those informal techniques? I have had no training in system dynamics, but know I need some way of getting at ""issues"" and incorporating them in a framework that tells me something about behavior.
Specifically, I am investigating the effect of increases in the land tax, which lowers the price/value of land (think: it approaches rental value where sale value equals zero) in relation to the effect of the tax law, where the higher the land value the higher the tax, i.e., an opposite proportionality, somewhat delayed.
tax $ land $ land $ tax $
high ---> low low ----> low
and
low ----> high high ----> high , which, superimposed, is a
figure eight flow
I believe a high land tax, with other taxes accordingly reduced, is beneficial for taxpayers, especially if it is due in monthly payments like rent, and I need to work up some realistic conjectures. The public is everywhere bent on getting its property tax (land plus improvements) lowered, which is fine with anyone in the land sales and land speculation business, but a decline over time for everyone else, partly because with a low property tax cities aren't capturing the increase in land value due to the city's location with its increasing amenities.
Mary Lehmann
Keep The Land Foundation
Posted by ""M. Lehmann"" <mlehmann1@austin.rr.com> posting date Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:54:22 -0600 _______________________________________________
> In thread: REPLY Fraction of Projects Qualitative (SD6068) Posted by
> ""Jim Hines"" <Jim@ventanasystems.com> Maybe M. Schwant's presenter was
> referring to the number of **issues** handled informally, vs.
> formally. If so, I can report that I handle lots
==============================================================
Is there any description of those informal techniques? I have had no training in system dynamics, but know I need some way of getting at ""issues"" and incorporating them in a framework that tells me something about behavior.
Specifically, I am investigating the effect of increases in the land tax, which lowers the price/value of land (think: it approaches rental value where sale value equals zero) in relation to the effect of the tax law, where the higher the land value the higher the tax, i.e., an opposite proportionality, somewhat delayed.
tax $ land $ land $ tax $
high ---> low low ----> low
and
low ----> high high ----> high , which, superimposed, is a
figure eight flow
I believe a high land tax, with other taxes accordingly reduced, is beneficial for taxpayers, especially if it is due in monthly payments like rent, and I need to work up some realistic conjectures. The public is everywhere bent on getting its property tax (land plus improvements) lowered, which is fine with anyone in the land sales and land speculation business, but a decline over time for everyone else, partly because with a low property tax cities aren't capturing the increase in land value due to the city's location with its increasing amenities.
Mary Lehmann
Keep The Land Foundation
Posted by ""M. Lehmann"" <mlehmann1@austin.rr.com> posting date Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:54:22 -0600 _______________________________________________