Making the Property Tax Work: Experiences in Developing and Transitional Countries Book

Introduction
1. The Property Tax in Practice, Roy Bahl, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Joan Youngman

The Setting
2. The Property Tax in Development and in Transition, Joan Youngman
3. The Determinants of Revenue Performance, Roy Bahl and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez Commentary, Gregory K. Ingram

Fairness, Political Issues, and Scope
4. Incidence and Economic Impacts of Property Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries, Edward B. Sennoga, David L. Sjoquist, and Sally Wallace
5. Property Tax and Rural Local Finance, Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack
6. Alternate Value Capture Instruments: The Case of Taiwan, Steve Waicho Tsui Commentary, Indira Rajaraman Commentary, Natalia V. Takhtarova

Data Collection and Information Technology
7. Data Challenges in Implementing a Market Value Property Tax: Market and Market-Informed Valuation in Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic States, John L. Mikesell and C. Kurt Zorn
8. Computer-Assisted Mass Appraisal Options for Transitional and Developing Countries, Joseph K. Eckert Commentary, Paul Smoke

Approaches to Valuation
9. Is Area-Based Assessment an Alternative, an Intermediate Step, or an Impediment to Value-Based Taxation in India?, U. A. Vasanth Rao
10. The Feasibility of Site Value Taxation, Riël C. D. Franzsen and William J. McCluskey Commentary, Gary Cornia

Property Rights, Collections, and Enforcement
11. Taxing Land Without Market Value in Ancient China, Yu-Hung Hong
12. Extending Property Taxation into Previously Untaxed Areas: South African Townships and Tribal Areas, Michael E. Bell and John H. Bowman
13. Collection and Enforcement of the Property Tax, Sally Powers Commentary, Claudia M. De Cesare

The Baltic Experience
14. Land Taxation Reform in Estonia, Tambet Tiits
15. Value-Based Property Taxes in Lithuania, Albina Aleksiene and Arvydas Bagdonavicius Commentary, Vytautas Šulija