Real Estate Tax

Raymond L. Richman, "Forum:The property-tax reform charade It's great politics to look for alternatives for funding schools. But scrapping property taxes is bad policy," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (October 6, 2002). The proposal to reduce real estate taxes by substituting other taxes would make the tax system less equitable. The real estate tax is the best tax local governments can levy.

Raymond L. Richman, "The Reassessment," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (April 7, 2002). Computers are an aid to assessing real estate, but assessing by computer only works in homogeneous neighborhoods or municipalities.

Raymond L. Richman, "Bring Back the Assessors," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (March 6, 2005). Property taxes need to be administered properly!

Raymond L. Richman, "Forum: Let's end the assessment fiasco: Real estate tax expert RAYMOND L. RICHMAN offers a modest plan for fixing Allegheny County's property tax assessment system," (October 15, 2006). A plan to fix the assessment fiasco in Pittsburgh.

Ray Richman, "Real Estate Fiasco, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (June 24, 2007). Maybe it's time to go with a Prop 13 style system in Pennsylvania.