Municipal Revenue Sources/Revenue Sharing
Date added
Report published by the Massachusetts Municipal Association and the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, January 2006
Estimates assume adoption by August 31, 2009, from Division of Local Services, July 2009
Report from Department of Revenue, January 28, 2009
Published in May 2009, the report makes a wide range of recommendations, including the closure of the telecommunications property tax loophole and giving cities and towns the authority to levy, at their option, a tax on restaurant meals and to expand the lodging tax.
Report prepared for the Fannie Mae Foundation by the George Washington Institute of Public Policy at George Washington University and Cleveland State University’s Office of Economic Development, 2007
Local Communities At Risk: Revisiting the Fiscal Partnership Between the Commonwealth and Cities and
11/10/2008
Report from the Municipal Finance Task Force, September 2005
10 Partnership Principles to Build a Stronger Commonwealth, by the Massachusetts Municipal Association, November 2006
By the Massachusetts Municipal Association, October 2007
The Dynamic between Municipal Revenue Sources and the State-Local Relationship in New England
11/10/2008
Working Paper by New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, by Richard F. Dye, January 2008
