Joshua Vincent
Joshua Vincent has been a Researcher/Executive Assistant with the Center for the Study of Economics - CSE - (founded 1980) since 1994 and its President since August, 1997. Vincent has worked pro bono and as a consultant to over 75 municipalities, counties, NGOs and national governments. In his role, Vincent works with tax departments and elected officials in restructuring their taxation to a land-based system. Approximately 40% of Vincent's time is spent on the road, delivering reports to cities, attending conferences and seminars on urban and tax affairs and educating interested officials in land value taxation.
Publications
Editor and Publisher of Incentive Taxation, a journal that reports on Land Value Taxation. www.urbantools.org
Opinion Pieces:
2006 in Philadelphia Inquirer on Land Value Taxation and Assessment in Philadelphia. Op-ed on reassessment in Scranton Times-Tribune. Many articles in 2006 in Heartland Institute's "budget and Tax News" explaining the implementation of land value taxation Pennsylvania.
Recent speaker on land value taxation at: Sustainable America, The Center for Chesapeake Communities' Summit Redevelopment Through A Shift In Tax Policy (Baltimore 2002) Gamaliel Conference on Urban Economics (Milwaukee 2005). Financing Transport Infrastructure Through Land Values: Making it Happen (London 2004) Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability Annual Conference Land Value Tax Seminar, 2005 (Ireland). Sponsored/spoke at many events for New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania municipal conferences. Vincent and CSE have conducted over 50 land tax impact studies for cities all over the US since 2000.
Vincent was instrumental in helping Allentown, Pa. structure and adopt a city charter change that overhauled the city's tax system with an emphasis on land value taxation, that was approved by the voters (ongoing). He designed the land value tax shift in Altoona, Pa. that will eliminate building taxes for the city in 2011. In July 2006, Vincent engineered a shift to land value tax for city and school district of Clairton, a poverty-stricken city of 8,500. This change led to tax reductions for homeowners that exceeded the best estimates of both Republican and Democrat tax reform measures currently under consideration at the state level.
Recently, Vincent served as an advisory and testamentary member of the Philadelphia Tax Reform Commission as well as the Drexel/Controller's Project on Philadelphia Property Land and Improvement Values. As director, Vincent has also testified as an expert witness on the impact of land taxation including state legislatures in Texas, Connecticut, Maryland, Indiana and Ohio. Through CSE, Vincent established web pages that will illustrate the impact of LVT on entire states (www.marylandlandtax.org for example).