Orange County NC Website
45 <br /> <br /> <br />Area of Study – Orange County-graph <br />(per capita income distributions) <br /> <br />Approach to analyzing the issue of tax equity <br />• Survey of Citizens <br />• Helps to determine who is using what <br />• Parks, Libraries, recycling, public transit, senior center, wifi/technology, health care <br />• Survey sent out over postal and email, facebook, etc. <br />• Examining taxes paid and government services received by citizens broken down by city <br />and incorporated area <br />• Federalism issues <br />• Public vs. private goods (excludable/non-excludable & rival/nonrival) <br />• Examine city and county budgets, socioeconomic data, tax data, etc. <br />• Snapshot methodology—some tax revenues collected today are shifted to reserve funds <br />to be spent in the future. This makes ‘taxes collected’ look bigger than ‘service provided’ <br /> <br />Approach to analyzing the issue of tax equity <br />2016 Government receipts and spending in billions <br /> <br />Approach to analyzing the issue of tax equity (pie chart) <br />(Orange County Revenues and Expenditures) <br /> <br />Approach to analyzing the issue of tax equity (pie chart) <br />(Hillsborough Revenues and Expenditures) <br /> <br />Approach to analyzing the issue of tax equity (pie chart) <br />(Mebane Revenues and Expenditures) <br /> <br />Approach to analyzing the issue of tax equity (pie chart) <br />(Carrboro Revenues and Expenditures) <br /> <br />Approach to analyzing the issue of tax equity (pie chart) <br />(Chapel Hill Revenues and Expenditures) <br /> <br />Approach to analyzing the issue of tax equity (map) <br />(Property and Income Taxes) <br /> <br />Survey results (chart) <br /> <br />Survey results (chart) <br /> <br />Results (chart) <br />(Monies paid out by citizens per capita) <br /> <br />Results (chart) <br />(Services received by citizens per capita) <br /> <br />Results