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Land Prices and Tax Policy: A Study of Fiscal Impacts

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. Various tax measures are in use in efforts to control the level of land prices and to moderate changes in them. These are the site value, vacant land, increment value and transfer taxes. Analysis indicates that sufficiently heavy site value taxes can help stem the rise in land prices and that relatively heavy vacant land taxes can be used to encourage the development of certain urban land. Both instruments may bring forward the time of development. Both are perhaps the best tax tools for controlling speculation. Significant problems seem likely to attend the use of land value increment and transfer taxes applied at high rates. Non‐tax alternative or complementary measures are also analyzed.

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  • Roger S. Smith, 1978. "Land Prices and Tax Policy: A Study of Fiscal Impacts," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(1), pages 51-69, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:37:y:1978:i:1:p:51-69
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1978.tb02795.x
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