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Land value return is needed, pragmatic, and achievable
Video/transcript from the latest LVT Landscape LIVE event
Sep 29
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Lars Doucet
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The Property Tax Patchwork Impeding Our Local Governments
Local governments keep cutting special deals creating inefficient systems. What does it say about property tax incentives?
Sep 24
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Greg Miller
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Valuing Land: The Simplest Viable Method
The least we can do to improve land valuation methodology right away
Sep 18
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Lars Doucet
67
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So You Want to Abolish Property Taxes
Or: "how to not turn your red state into California"
Sep 2
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Lars Doucet
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August 2025
What Baltimore’s assessments taught me about cities, data, and fairness
The importance of land banks, how should we value commercial land, and more takeaways from months in the weeds on Baltimore's assessments
Aug 27
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Greg Miller
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The Landscape #4: Wins aren’t always legislative, though legislative wins are on the horizon
Maryland assessors will fix chronic undervaluation of land; jurisdictions consider land value taxes. Who will be the first mover?
Aug 20
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Greg Miller
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OpenAVMKit: a Free and Open Source mass appraisal library
Today we are launching OpenAVMKit, a new free and open source library for real estate mass appraisal.
Aug 13
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Lars Doucet
42
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How Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight—And How We Can Fix It
Baltimore systematically undervalues vacant lots by as much as half a billion dollars, a new Center for Land Economics report finds.
Aug 6
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Greg Miller
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Lars Doucet
42
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July 2025
The curious case of Qingdao, China's land value tax
What we can learn from a German colony's LVT experiment
Jul 31
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Lars Doucet
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DeSantis is Half-Right About Property Taxes
The Florida Governor is trying to undo Florida’s property taxes. Taxes on buildings are bad. Taxes on land are not.
Jul 16
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Greg Miller
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Lars Doucet
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What don’t we know about LVT? Research that could advance Georgism.
Reviewing the current state of research into land value taxes & cultivating future research
Jul 9
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Greg Miller
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Stephen Hoskins
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June 2025
Amateurs talk Algorithms, Professionals talk Data Cleaning
The #1 thing every assessor can do to get better results right away
Jun 30
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Lars Doucet
14
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