Now he raises cattle instead, an easy way to exempt property from reform.
Before taking office, Mr Letta vowed to make job creation his priority, but critics are unhappy that he has focused on property tax reform.
The Shanghai municipal government will continue to increase land supply and reform property tax, mayor Han Zheng said Wednesday.
The president is determined to complete the reforms before the end of his term in 1998 -- tax reform, protection of intellectual property, retail trade liberalization, reform of the Philippine National Police, amendments to the Expanded Value Added Tax, more incentives to investors, judicial reforms.
Sweeney felt personally attacked, having worked with Christie on a number of budget issues including pension reform and property tax caps.
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So far, this has sounded more like a redistribution of property, rather than liberal reform.
Whitman said Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press" that her decision to run will depend on whether she can complete work on her three top priorities -- property tax relief, school reform and land preservation -- in the time she has remaining in her second term as governor.
In terms of natural resources, watch for any movement on property rights, a much-mooted property tax, or energy price reform.
The logical solution, de Soto argues, is to bestow property on slum dwellers, a reform effort that has shown promise.
Brian Hooks, director of the Global Prosperity Initiative at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, advocates the kind of legal reform and changes in property rights pioneered by Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto--reforms that will eventually enable the world's poor to join formal financial systems.
Furthermore, Mujica spoke about the possibility of a constitutional reform to deal with changes in private and land property.
In Spain one relatively painless reform would be to change the rules for renting out property, which currently overprotect tenants.
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It never ceases to amaze me that 25 years after the Tax Reform Act of 1986, there is still a significant amount of appreciated property inside closely held C corporations.
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The challenge will be to engage on fundamental reform and return to sound money under a rule of law that safeguards persons and property, including the property right a person has in the future value of money.
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Yet the very solution that had been adopted for Japan's macroeconomic problem after its stock- and property markets crashed in 1990, a big expansion of public-works spending, ended up making reform harder.
The interagency team could, for instance, recommend sensible reforms to our high-skilled immigration policy, improvements in intellectual-property law, better-designed grant programs that push innovative ideas from universities into companies, regulatory reform around the approval of drugs and medical devices, and policies to sustain a robust venture-capital industry and investments in science and math education.
"When the property was put on the market by Summer Isles Foods, Coigach Community Development Company, under the Land Reform Act duly notified ministers that they wished to proceed and ministers appointed a valuer to carry out a valuation, " it stated.
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He says he has lowered property taxes, created tax credits for manufacturers and agriculture, reduced red tape and reigned in frivolous lawsuits through tort reform.
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