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Taxes and the User Cost of Capital for Owner-Occupied Housing

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Patric H. Hendershott
Joel Slemrod

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Owner-occupied housing is said to be favored in the tax code because mortgage interest and property taxes can be deducted in the computation of one's income tax base in spite of the fact that the returns from owner- occupied housing = not taxed. The special tax treatment reduces the user cost of capital for owner-occupied homing. The issue treated in this paper is the measurement of the tax rate to be employed in the user cost calculations. It is argued that different tax rates am appropriate for the tenure choice and quantity-demanded decisions, and that these values depend on the detailed tax position of the household and the method of finance. Average 1977 tax rates for households in different income ranges are calculated using the NBER TAXSIM microeconomic data file on individual tax returns

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  2. Kaizoji, Taisei, 2009. "Root Causes of The Housing Bubble," MPRA Paper 16807, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Donald R. Haurin & Patric H. Hendershott & David C. Ling, 1989. "Homeownership Rates of Married Couples: An Econometric Investigation," NBER Working Papers 2305, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  15. Donald R. Haurin & Patric H. Hendershott & Dongwook Kim, 1990. "Tenure Choice of American Youth," NBER Working Papers 3310, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  17. Joel Slemrod, 1986. "The Impact of Tax Reform on Households," NBER Working Papers 1765, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  18. Todd Sinai & Joseph Gyourko, 2004. "The (Un)changing Geographical Distribution of Housing Tax Benefits: 1980 to 2000," NBER Working Papers 10322, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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