Reval and assessment information

Minutes of the last meeting of the commission, misrecording my "NO" vote on the document intended to be the commission recommendations as an abstention. Some alternate recommendations from one commissioner about tax policy for the city of Providence. An article about statistical problems with the standard practice of revaluations. Adapted from a 2004 article in the Rhode Island Policy Reporter, see issue 4 (August 2004). Presentation about those statistical problems. To be presented at the Special Commission for Taxation and Revenue, 8 November 2023. A more in-depth treatment of the subject, with references. Analysis of sales and assessment data from the city of Providence, looking at the regressive nature of the assessment process. Prepared for the Commission by the Center for Municipal Finance at the University of Chicago. A comparative presentation about Providence taxation and tax policy in similar-sized cities across the US. Covers consumption taxes, sales taxes, property taxes. A study about the surprising level of real estate speculation in Providence, 2000-2007. A bill to do something about it.