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The Property Tax as a Tax on Value: Deadweight Loss

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Richard Arnott () (Boston College)
Petia Petrova () (Boston College)

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Consider an atomistic developer who decides when and at what density to develop his land, under a property value tax system characterized by three time-invariant tax rates: the tax rate on pre-development land value; the tax rate on post- development residual site value; and the tax rate on structure value. Arnott (2002) identified the subset of property value tax systems which are neutral. This paper investigates the relative efficiency of four idealized, non-neutral property value tax systems (i) Canadian property tax system; (ii) simple property tax system; (iii)residual site value tax system;( iv) differentiated property tax system under the assumption of a constant rental growth rate.

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Paper provided by Boston College Department of Economics in its series Boston College Working Papers in Economics with number 532.

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Keywords: property taxation; site value taxation; land taxation; deadweight loss;

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  1. Teemu Lyytikäinen, 2007. "The Effect of Three-rate Property Taxation on Housing Construction," Discussion Papers 419, Government Institute for Economic Research Finland (VATT). [Downloadable!]
  2. Athiphat Muthitacharoen & George R. Zodrow, 2008. "The Efficiency Costs of Local Property Tax," International Studies Program Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU paper0815, International Studies Program, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. [Downloadable!]
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