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A Socioeconomic Analysis of Property Assessment Uniformity: Empirical Evidence on the Role of Policy
Author(s) -
ROSS JUSTIN M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
public budgeting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1540-5850
pISSN - 0275-1100
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5850.2013.12001.x
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , property (philosophy) , public economics , task (project management) , economics , demographic economics , econometrics , actuarial science , psychology , sociology , demography , management , philosophy , epistemology , population
Though property assessment uniformity has been repeatedly studied as a technical problem related to the difficulty of the task, popular, and policy sentiment against the property tax is frequently directed at the incidence of nonuniformity across socioeconomic groups. Using data from Virginia, this paper brings socioeconomic determinants to the forefront of the analysis and their interaction with policy. Unlike the previous literature that employs controls for the time passed since the last reassessment, this paper consider show policy and socioeconomic variables may exert different influences between assessments. For example, the results indicate that elected and appointed assessors perform similarly during mass reappraisals in terms of maintaining uniformity, but appointed assessors perform far better during nonassessment years.