A modest tax proposal from LOVELAND Technologies
One of the most enterprising social innovators in town, Jerry Paffendorf, has come up with a relatively simple idea to collect outstanding property taxes in Detroit.
Here’s an exerpt of the plan:
Detroit, which is undergoing a financial emergency, has a humungous, outsized, world-record-setting problem collecting property taxes, with nearly half-a-billion dollars outstanding and approximately 70,000 properties facing tax foreclosure. A lot of people don’t pay their taxes because they find the whole process scary, intimidating, and confusing. We can change this in 30 days using the twin super powers of the internet and simple design, if given the chance.
There is plenty more, including charts here.
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