The distribution of wealth is widening in many countries and with it the importance of inherited wealth. In 1974 a Labour Government came to power in the United Kingdom committed to introducing an annual wealth tax. It left office without doing so. Using the official archives of the time and...

LexisNexis New Zealand has kindly consented to the classic text, John Prebble The Taxation of Property Transactions (1985) being posted on the SSRN website. Statutory references are to sections as numbered in the Income Tax Act 1976, but apart from re-numbering and reorganisation, the law in the...

Over the past three decades, more than a dozen developed nations have abandoned their wealth taxes. Yet the United States today finds itself in the midst of a political debate about implementing a wealth tax to partially fund the spending commitments of progressive presidential hopefuls. The...

French analyses of estate taxation often looks at the ISF wealth tax and nothing else. The initial idea of the lawmakers behind the ISF - implemented in 1981- was firstly to impose a levy on goods providing their owners with the wherewithal to pay more in tax, secondly to create a redistribution...

This paper reveals a noticeable difference between a high degree of progressivity of incomerelated local property tax relief versus the proportional or regressive incidence of recognition tax relief. Recognition tax relief is tax relief given to specified social sectors which recognizes either...

We quantify the effect of property tax reforms implemented in Italy in 1993 and 2012 on property prices. We focus on the Italian house prices index using the Interrupted Time Series Analysis (ITSA), a statistical approach that proves to be useful when a counterfactual scenario for policy...