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- Title
Municipal Communications Tax Revenue Reliance and Fiscal Impact of Possible Federal Preemption.
- Authors
WU, YONGHONG; PAGANO, MICHAEL A.
- Abstract
This paper presents empirical evidence of the extent to which municipal governments might be affected by federal preemption in the communications sector in light of the substantial variation in municipal governments' reliance on communications tax revenues. The results suggest that the federal preemption would have a negative fiscal impact on the majority of municipal governments, and the extent of the impact would vary substantially. The analysis also indicates that it would be challenging or legally impossible for some city governments to make up for the magnitude of revenue loss due to the states' constraints on municipal revenue-raising capacity.
- Subjects
MUNICIPAL government; COMMUNICATIONS industries; FEDERAL regulation; FEDERAL government; TAXATION; STATE supervision over local government
- Publication
Public Budgeting & Finance, 2008, Vol 28, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
0275-1100
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-5850.2008.00898.x