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Re:High property taxes are good by kspacewalk2 on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @01:14PM (#32168946)
>separating the value of land and improvements is practically impossible.

is routinely done in countries in which variants of land value tax are implemented.

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Re:High property taxes are good by beefman on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @01:22PM (#32169092)
It's routinely done in appraisals where I live too. Doesn't mean it's in any way accurate, as required to make the mechanism in the grandparent comment work.
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Re:High property taxes are good by zip1234 on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @01:41PM (#32169441)
Valuing a building+land is already done and used for property tax purposes. Why do you think it would be worse or less accurate to just remove building part?
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