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Technical Bulletins: Hotel/Motel Tax In Tennessee Municipalities, Ron Darden Nov 2005

Technical Bulletins: Hotel/Motel Tax In Tennessee Municipalities, Ron Darden

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The proceeds from the hotel/motel tax can be used for purposes authorized in the ordinance, private act, or general law authorizing or levying the tax. Includes sample ordinance.


Technical Bulletins: Sales Tax Revenue: How To Get Your Fair Share, Al Major Aug 2005

Technical Bulletins: Sales Tax Revenue: How To Get Your Fair Share, Al Major

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The best way to maximize your city's local sales tax is to review the state's record of business locations (situs report) and correct any errors.


Technical Bulletins: State Street Aid Fund Expenditures: On The Road To Understanding, Ron Darden Jul 2005

Technical Bulletins: State Street Aid Fund Expenditures: On The Road To Understanding, Ron Darden

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The Tennessee Legislature has authorized the state to distribute a portion of proceeds from the state gasoline and motor vehicle fuel tax to incorporated cities and towns to use for maintaining and improving municipal streets.


Hot Topic: State Shared Taxes And Appropriations (2005-2006), Dick Phebus Jun 2005

Hot Topic: State Shared Taxes And Appropriations (2005-2006), Dick Phebus

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

Based on economic projections for FY 2006, municipalities are expected to receive approximately $101.36 per capita for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2005.


Fiat Money And The Natural Scale Of Government, Martin Shubik, Eric Smith Apr 2005

Fiat Money And The Natural Scale Of Government, Martin Shubik, Eric Smith

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The competitive market structure of a decentralized economy is converted into a self-policing system treating the bureaucracy and enforcement of the legal system endogenously. In particular we consider money systems as constructs to make agents’ economic strategies predictable from knowledge of their preferences and endowments, and thus to support coordinated resource production and distribution from independent decision making. Diverse rule systems can accomplish this, and we construct minimal strategic market games representing government-issued fiat money and ideal commodity money as two cases. We endogenize the provision of money and rules for its use as productive activities within the society, and …


Symposium Paper: Economic And Tax Implications For Managing Beef Replacement Heifers, R. T. Clark, K. W. Creighton, H. H. Patterson, T. N. Barrett Jan 2005

Symposium Paper: Economic And Tax Implications For Managing Beef Replacement Heifers, R. T. Clark, K. W. Creighton, H. H. Patterson, T. N. Barrett

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

Sustainable cowherds require replacement of cull cows either internally via raised heifers or externally with purchased females. Managing raised replacements begins with a weaned heifer calf and continues on through her second pregnancy and calving. Replacement costs were estimated from research conducted in Nebraska for spring-calving cowherds and included the opportunity cost of the heifer calf. The analysis, based on research data, showed that heifer development programs targeted to 50 to 55% of mature BW (MBW) at first breeding can be successful, challenging the traditional target of 65% of MBW at first breeding. The lower BW programs achieved …