Author: Dan Li Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This paper examines China's urban housing sector and proposes that property tax reform be undertaken. Specifically, China should significantly reduce taxes on transactions and introduce property taxes during the possession of houses. This will increase housing affordability as a result of lower transaction costs, reduce speculation because of the higher opportunity cost of holding vacant houses, stabilize the fiscal system by generating more sustainable tax revenue, and improve the efficiency and fairness of the property tax system according to the principles of ability-to-pay and user pays.
Author: Yilin Hou Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319100491 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 193
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This monograph offers a detailed analysis of the creation, pilot implementation, and possible wide adoption of the real property tax at the local level in China. Starting in 2003, as China’s economy gradually recovered from the Asian financial crisis that started in 1998, the real property market entered a period of rapid expansion, followed immediately by rampant speculation, rising housing costs, and official corruption. Over the last ten years, the price of real property in most cities has more than tripled, especially in metropolitan areas. In an effort to curb this, the government has instituted a number of property-market controls, including property tax pilot programs in Shanghai and Chongqing. While this is the latest of a number of fiscal reforms, it is a very important one that carries with it the ability to change the landscape of public finance, intergovernmental relations, and local governance in China. It represents a fundamental change in the provision of public services, the relationship between local governments and tax payers, and the status of localities in the government structure. Taking a public choice perspective, the authors argue that the local property tax should be used not solely as a means of controlling housing prices but should be fully employed as a fiscal and budgetary institution that will contribute to mitigating multifarious socio-economic problems resulting from economic growth, rapid urbanization, and widening income disparity. As this program is the first of its kind, so this book is the first detailed study of property tax in China; as such, it will appeal to researchers of public finance and public policy. It will also be of great interest to policymakers in China and in other countries that are considering adopting or reforming their versions of the local property tax. It fills the gap in a growing body of literature about the inner workings of Chinese economics and policy.
Author: Yilin Hou Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319955284 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 212
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This book offers an analysis of China in its muddling through of financial reforms towards adopting a local real property tax. The research is designed to serve dual purposes. First, it is an effort to provide an independent perspective on an urgent public policy under consideration by the Chinese government and to reflect upon this policy’s process, which started over a dozen years ago yet is still in the fermenting stage with no sight of fruition. Additionally, this project is intended to share China’s experience with other developing and transitional countries, so they can discern the difficulties China has faced and understand what may entangle them in the modernization of their taxation systems.
Author: Xiaobo Lü Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Tax compliance remains an obstacle to the building of state capacity in many developing countries. Conventional wisdom suggests a link between taxation and political representation, yet recent field experiments have often failed to find consistent evidence to support this link. We argue that citizens believe that the effectiveness of their input hinges on the presence of top-down sanctioning institutions. This conditional effect is particularly salient among those institutional outsiders with relatively fewer political rights and resources, thus they need the assurances from top-down institutions for bureaucratic sanctioning. We conducted a conjoint experiment of property tax in urban China to study willingness for tax compliance, and we found supporting evidence to our arguments. Our results remain robust after we explore alternative mechanisms on the conditional effects of citizen input for willingness for tax compliance, such as trust in government and perception of political efficacy.
Author: Joan Youngman Publisher: ISBN: 9781558443426 Category : Local finance Languages : en Pages : 260
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In A Good Tax, tax expert Joan Youngman skillfully considers how to improve the operation of the property tax and supply the information that is often missing in public debate. She analyzes the legal, administrative, and political challenges to the property tax in the United States and offers recommendations for its improvement. The book is accessibly written for policy analysts and public officials who are dealing with specific property tax issues and for those concerned with property tax issues in general.
Author: John E. Anderson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 23
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Real estate taxes and fees affect land markets and housing development patterns in significant ways affecting the timing of real estate development, spatial patterns of land development, and the capital intensity of development. This paper examines the economic impacts of real estate taxes and fees in a dynamic framework, with special application to proposed reforms in China. Impacts identified are also relevant for real estate tax and fee reforms more generally in developing countries whose institutional real estate regimes are in transition.
Author: William McCluskey Publisher: ISBN: 9781558444232 Category : Languages : en Pages : 552
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This volume showcases the first comprehensive assessment of property tax in Asia. It provides authoritative data on legislation, tax administration practices, revenue statistics, reform proposals, new technology, and political debate to raise awareness of the potential for land-based revenue throughout these regions.
Author: Roy W. Bahl Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 494
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Students of public finance and fiscal decentralization in developing and transitional countries have long argued for more intensive use of the property tax. It would seem the ideal choice for financing local government services. Based on a Lincoln Institute conference held in October 2006, the chapters in this book take this argument one step further in drawing on recent experience with property tax policy and administration. Two main sets of issues are addressed. First, why hasn't the property tax worked well in most developing and transitional countries? Second, what can be done to make the property tax a more relevant source for local governments in those countries? The numerous advantages of the property tax as a local government revenue source are analyzed and discussed in detail as are the many perceived disadvantages.
Author: Joyce Yanyun Man Publisher: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy ISBN: 9781558442115 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 260
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This in-depth volume explains China's residential construction boom and reviews how some established trends are likely to challenge its housing market in coming years. It draws on household surveys and public data in China and provides important lessons about housing policy for China and other countries.
Author: Dan Li
Author: Yilin Hou
Author: Yilin Hou
Author: Xiaobo Lü
Author: Joan Youngman
Author: Han-liang Huang
Author: John E. Anderson
Author: William McCluskey
Author: Roy W. Bahl
Author: Joyce Yanyun Man