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- Title
An Analysis of the Distribution and Characteristics of Mobile Homes in America.
- Authors
French, Robert Mills; Hadden, Jeffrey K.
- Abstract
In free Vietnam where income earned arises largely from land and where some 75 per cent of the population make a living as farmers, the property tax provides less than I per cent of government tax receipts. In the state of New Jersey, which is one of the world's most highly industrialized areas, property taxes provide 64.8 per cent of the grand total of state and local tax collections.In 1962 not more than 3 to 5 per cent of total government revenues in South America were property taxes. In the United States about one-sixth of all taxes are property taxes. The tax mix in Latin America generally approximates 0 to 10 per cent in property taxes, about 75 per cent in excise and customs duties, and about 25 per cent in income taxes.The examples, and the many more of a similar nature which could be developed, demonstrate that property as a tax base is related to something more than the importance of agriculture in a nation's economic base. The property tax, which has enjoyed its greatest development in the United States, was an expression of the political and economic beliefs and realities of the nation just as was the (Gabelle), the famous salt tax which formed a basic portion of the revenue system of the Ancient Regime in France and the Manchu and more ancient empires of China an expression of the philosophies and realities existing in those empires during their period of disorder and decline.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MOBILE homes; HOUSING; HOUSING statistics; DWELLINGS; TRAILERS; MOBILE home living
- Publication
Land Economics, 1965, Vol 41, Issue 2, p121
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3144267