So, no, that is the primary hurdle. They are available but only to people with a legitimate interest, which does not include me at the present. One also has to sign a data use contract.
So I am going to try and build the model with inferred tax rates and then use that to demonstrate to a few think-tanks or researchers (who do have legitimate interest apparently) the usefulness of the data.
From there it should be pretty straightforward to add it.
The new GIthub agents are getting much closer to what non-expert users like me (my last coding was in Foxpro for DOS 20 years ago!) can use. However, I think I will hold off in case there will be a future API that doesn't require me to deal with GitHub, downloading or Python. /lvt-city <city> is easy enough I suppose, but there's lot of preamble still to get to that prompting point.
My main mission, as before, is to get to a direct AI comparison I can run anytime to get:
What would the Single Tax on Land be if it replaced all other NYC taxes in a revenue-neutral way, kept current exemptions, had a deferral provision (a lot of people complain they are cash-poor but land rich, though they don't call it that, and they conveniently forget the land-rich part. Hmm...).
I'd like some graphics too, please :)
I have regular debates - with varying degrees of manners - on X and elsewhere all the time about LVT, but having hard numbers is always better. Some people just hate the government so much, they'll even prefer the banks get money for mortgages that ought to go to taxes because of ATCOR, but that's another discussion and probably represents a group that will simply never agree. Still, I keep trying...
I'm going to try and vibe code this for use with a French city, wish me luck 😆
let me know how it goes!
This does rely on public accessible property tax records, so hopefully you have that
FYI with kisses from Claude Code:
"Three small, production-grade additions: a France residential-category
constant, a lazily-imported helper (so a CSV-only run never requires matplotlib), and a make_report flag on run()." :D
So, no, that is the primary hurdle. They are available but only to people with a legitimate interest, which does not include me at the present. One also has to sign a data use contract.
So I am going to try and build the model with inferred tax rates and then use that to demonstrate to a few think-tanks or researchers (who do have legitimate interest apparently) the usefulness of the data.
From there it should be pretty straightforward to add it.
Excellent 👍
The new GIthub agents are getting much closer to what non-expert users like me (my last coding was in Foxpro for DOS 20 years ago!) can use. However, I think I will hold off in case there will be a future API that doesn't require me to deal with GitHub, downloading or Python. /lvt-city <city> is easy enough I suppose, but there's lot of preamble still to get to that prompting point.
My main mission, as before, is to get to a direct AI comparison I can run anytime to get:
What would the Single Tax on Land be if it replaced all other NYC taxes in a revenue-neutral way, kept current exemptions, had a deferral provision (a lot of people complain they are cash-poor but land rich, though they don't call it that, and they conveniently forget the land-rich part. Hmm...).
I'd like some graphics too, please :)
I have regular debates - with varying degrees of manners - on X and elsewhere all the time about LVT, but having hard numbers is always better. Some people just hate the government so much, they'll even prefer the banks get money for mortgages that ought to go to taxes because of ATCOR, but that's another discussion and probably represents a group that will simply never agree. Still, I keep trying...