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We use a New Keynesian DSGE model with search frictions on the housing market to evaluate how financing a labor tax reduction by higher property taxation affects the real economy and welfare. Search on the housing market enables us to explicitly model stocks and flows, which is necessary to...
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The federal income tax laws have always included gain from "dealings in property" as an item of gross income, and probably only the payment of wages rivals the sale of property in fundamental importance to taxpayers generally. Nevertheless, the courts and the Internal Revenue Service have yet to...
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The property tax was originally intended to be a tax on the stock of wealth, in essence all property – real and personal, tangible and intangible. Estimating the property tax base without any exemptions or other legal deviations from market value is an exercise that permits the discussion to...
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generally above their socially optimal level. This theory can help explain why many people believe property taxes are excessive … in excessive rates. I test this theory on a sample of Pennsylvania municipalities in the Philadelphia suburbs. This is a … not possible to reject the theory's basic predictions, and numerical estimates suggest that a five year delay in community …
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This article reviews the "traditional," "benefit," and "new" or "capital tax" views of the incidence of the property tax. Its main theme is that each of the three views can be illuminated using various models of the property tax as a capital tax. In particular, from the perspective of a single...
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Property tax is a crucial part of tax policy, and it also plays an important role in regulating household consumption. In order to objectively evaluate the impact of property tax on household consumption, this paper redefines the statistical measures of residents’ burden of property tax, and...
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