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Fiscal Limitations on Local Choice: The Imposition and Effects of Local Government Tax and Expenditure Limitations

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In this broad and illuminating work, experts on public finance discuss innovations in state and local tax policy that have been implemented or considered over the course of the last three decades. The authors provide original work that analyzes whether state and local governments have ‘gone outside the box’ to deal with the strains of current public finances or have gotten along by adhering to the status quo. This book provides researchers, students and policy makers with evaluations and analyses by well-known scholars in the area of state and local public finance of actual practices and analysis of potential policy changes for the future.

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  • Daniel R Mullins, 2010. "Fiscal Limitations on Local Choice: The Imposition and Effects of Local Government Tax and Expenditure Limitations," Chapters, in: Sally Wallace (ed.), State and Local Fiscal Policy, chapter 9, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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