The study will assess the relationship between
physical growth and tax rate change, and by extension whether taxpayers
are fiscally impacted by sprawl. First, this will be answered by regression
models as to whether the change in single land use accounts for the change
in tax rate. Second, to what extent tax rate indicates actual households’
tax burden will be answered by studying the historical data of sampled
households.
Based on the availability of the techniques or software
of spatial statistics, the study might be able to answer the above questions
using both the two perspectives from traditional and spatial statistics
and then compare the results from the two perspectives.
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