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The Effect of Property Tax Limitations on Residential Private Governments: The Case of Proposition 13

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The proliferation of residential private governments, in the form of homeowners' associations, to deliver public services coincided with a period in which cities faced significant property tax limitations. Using panel data from California in the era of Proposition 13, I test whether cities that were more tax constrained experienced higher rates of private government formation. The degree of constraint is measured by using the limitation's revenue sharing formula and by using crime to proxy for local service demand. I find the more a city is constrained, the higher is the membership in and the rate of growth of, private governments.

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  • Cheung, Ron, 2008. "The Effect of Property Tax Limitations on Residential Private Governments: The Case of Proposition 13," National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal, vol. 61(1), pages 35-56, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ntj:journl:v:61:y:2008:i:1:p:35-56
    DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2008.1.02
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    Cited by:

    1. Justin M. Ross & Madeline Farrell & Lang Kate Yang, 2015. "Indiana's Property Tax Caps: Old Idea, New Approach, and Surprising Incentives," Public Budgeting & Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(4), pages 18-41, December.
    2. Pengju Zhang, 2018. "The unintended impact of tax and expenditure limitations on the use of special districts: the politics of circumvention," Economics of Governance, Springer, vol. 19(1), pages 21-50, February.
    3. Meltzer, Rachel & Cheung, Ron, 2014. "How are homeowners associations capitalized into property values?," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 93-102.

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