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The Property Tax as a Tax on Value: Deadweight Loss

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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: tv, the tax rate on pre-development land value; ts, the tax rate on post development residual site value; and tk, 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: tv=0, ts=tk ; ii) simple property tax system: tv=ts=tk ; iii) residual site value tax system:; tk=0, tv=ts; iv) differentiated property tax system: tv=ts > tk > 0] under the assumption of a constant rental growth rate.

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  • Richard Arnott & Petia Petrova, 2002. "The Property Tax as a Tax on Value: Deadweight Loss," IDEP Working Papers 0203, Institut d'economie publique (IDEP), Marseille, France, revised Apr 2002.
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    Property Taxation; Site Value Taxation; Land Taxation; Deadweight Loss.;
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