Improving processes for valuing properties lies at the heart of efforts to improve the overall effectiveness of property taxation. Effective property taxation is impossible without efficient property valuation. In practice, however, valuation rolls across most of Africa are incomplete and severely out-of-date, thus dramatically reducing potential property tax yield. This is, at least in part, a function of history: many of the valuation models being used on the continent do not reflect best practices and local learning, but are inherited vestiges of colonial systems that no longer respond adequately to local needs. The need to modernise is urgent, but progress has been slow. Effective reform needs to consider two broad questions: (i) the ex...
When local governments impose property taxes, their primary objective is to fund their expenditure. ...
Contemporary property tax reforms face the challenge of identifying the appropriate role for a tax o...
Much literature has been written about the appeal of property tax as a stable source of revenue for ...
The current method of property valuation in Freetown, Sierra Leone is highly inaccurate and generall...
Property valuation as a discipline is fast becoming a global issue. In recent past, this discipline ...
Thesis (MPA)-University of Durban-Westville, 1987.In this dissertation, a study is undertaken of the...
Real estate markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are beginning to mature partly due to increased busi...
Purpose – This paper’s aim is to examine how long established ad valorem taxation systems can be ada...
Efforts to reform property tax systems in African cities tend to focus more on how to value properti...
value and other property tax systems in some of the member states of the Southern African Developmen...
This paper proposes that a land residual valuation calculation that assesses the value of the improv...
By nature, property is an expensive and emotive commodity. Moreover, property economists – as indeed...
For almost a decade, property taxation reform revealed as a matter of concern in Tanzania. This refo...
Context and background: Real Property Valuation is the most essential activity in administering land...
The property tax is levied in all African countries except Burkina Faso and Seychelles. In some coun...
When local governments impose property taxes, their primary objective is to fund their expenditure. ...
Contemporary property tax reforms face the challenge of identifying the appropriate role for a tax o...
Much literature has been written about the appeal of property tax as a stable source of revenue for ...
The current method of property valuation in Freetown, Sierra Leone is highly inaccurate and generall...
Property valuation as a discipline is fast becoming a global issue. In recent past, this discipline ...
Thesis (MPA)-University of Durban-Westville, 1987.In this dissertation, a study is undertaken of the...
Real estate markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are beginning to mature partly due to increased busi...
Purpose – This paper’s aim is to examine how long established ad valorem taxation systems can be ada...
Efforts to reform property tax systems in African cities tend to focus more on how to value properti...
value and other property tax systems in some of the member states of the Southern African Developmen...
This paper proposes that a land residual valuation calculation that assesses the value of the improv...
By nature, property is an expensive and emotive commodity. Moreover, property economists – as indeed...
For almost a decade, property taxation reform revealed as a matter of concern in Tanzania. This refo...
Context and background: Real Property Valuation is the most essential activity in administering land...
The property tax is levied in all African countries except Burkina Faso and Seychelles. In some coun...
When local governments impose property taxes, their primary objective is to fund their expenditure. ...
Contemporary property tax reforms face the challenge of identifying the appropriate role for a tax o...
Much literature has been written about the appeal of property tax as a stable source of revenue for ...