Helpful Local Surtaxes? Florida and Disadvantaged Families

Author(s)

David Ryan Miller, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Robert J. Eger III
Bruce D. McDonald III

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Local Government Studies

ISSN

0300-3930

Publication Date

2017

Abstract/Excerpt

Well-intended tax policy often produces unintended consequences. In this article, we look at one such tax policy, specialised surtaxes in the State of Florida. Surtaxes are frequently adopted to provide financial assistance to poverty-based local programmes and services. Despite the intended benefits, we show that the contributors of the tax have been able to capitalise the cost into the residential property market, ultimately placing the burden of the surtax upon the population its revenue intends to help.

DOI

10.1080/03003930.2016.1263188

Volume

43

Issue

2

First Page

170

Last Page

193

NSUWorks Citation

Miller, David Ryan; Eger, Robert J. III; and McDonald, Bruce D. III, "Helpful Local Surtaxes? Florida and Disadvantaged Families" (2017). HCBE Faculty Articles. 612.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facarticles/612