Improving Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for Economic Development
Published on 5. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
68 pages
978-1-55844-377-8 (ISBN)
Description
In the most comprehensive assessment of tax increment financing (TIF) with practical policy recommendations, economist David Merriman reviews more than 30 studies and offers guidance for local policy makers and practitioners. The report explains how TIF districts work, illustrates TIF use with case studies from around the country, describes TIF's potential benefits and pitfalls, and reviews a large body of academic work that evaluates TIF's effects on economic development.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: Up to 99 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
color photos and figures throughout
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55844-377-8 (9781558443778)
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Person
David F. Merriman is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and directs the Fiscal Futures Project, a comprehensive and consistently defined measure of the Illinois state budget.