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Center for Public Finance | Working Paper

75 Years of Research on the Property Tax

This paper examines the evolution of academic research on the effects of the property tax over the past 75 years, with a special emphasis on articles that have appeared in the National Tax Journal over that time period.

Center for Health and Biosciences | Issue Brief

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