IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/oec/ecoaaa/1237-en.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The stabilisation properties of immovable property taxation: Evidence from OECD countries

Author

Listed:
  • Hansjörg Blöchliger

    (OECD)

  • Balázs Égert
  • Bastien Alvarez

    (University of Toulouse)

  • Aleksandra Paciorek

    (OECD)

Abstract

This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the macroeconomic effects of property taxes, in particular on the relationships between property taxes, house prices and the wider economy. The paper first estimates a fiscal reaction function which analysis the reaction of property tax revenues to house prices. It then analyses a house price reaction function looking at the relation of how house prices react to changes in property taxes. For a set of OECD countries, the results suggest that property taxes tend to be a-cyclical or slightly pro-cyclical. They provide a stable revenue source for sub-central governments but do not stabilise the economy. The results also suggest that an increase in property tax revenues or in the tax revenue-to-GDP share slows down house price increases and that higher property taxation tends to reduce house price volatility. Les propriétés stabilisatrices de la fiscalité des biens immobiliers : Données relatives aux pays de l'OCDE Ce document vient compléter les rares travaux publiés sur les effets macroéconomiques des impôts immobiliers, en particulier sur la relation entre la fiscalité immobilière, les prix des logements et l'économie dans son ensemble. Nous estimons d'abord une fonction de réaction budgétaire permettant d'analyser la réaction des recettes d'impôts immobiliers aux variations des prix des logements. Nous analysons ensuite une fonction de réaction des prix des logements, permettant de déterminer comment réagissent les prix des biens immobiliers d'habitation aux variations des impôts immobiliers. Pour un ensemble de pays de l'OCDE, les résultats obtenus laissent à penser que les impôts immobiliers tendent à être acycliques ou légèrement procycliques. Ils constituent une source de recettes stables pour les administrations infranationales mais ne stabilisent pas l'économie. Les résultats obtenus laissent également à penser qu'une hausse des recettes d'impôts immobiliers ou du ratio recettes fiscales/produit intérieur brut (PIB) a pour effet de ralentir les augmentations des prix des logements, et qu'une fiscalité immobilière plus lourde tend à réduire la volatilité des prix des logements.

Suggested Citation

  • Hansjörg Blöchliger & Balázs Égert & Bastien Alvarez & Aleksandra Paciorek, 2015. "The stabilisation properties of immovable property taxation: Evidence from OECD countries," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1237, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:1237-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5js0cqq93djg-en
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1787/5js0cqq93djg-en
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1787/5js0cqq93djg-en?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ignacio Lozano-Espitia & Diana Ricciulli-Marin, 2017. "¿Está Afectando el Impuesto Predial el Precio de la Vivienda en Bogotá? Un Análisis Basado en la Econometría Espacial," Borradores de Economia 1016, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    fiscalité des biens immobiliers; housing market; immovable property tax; marchés du logement; stabilisation; stabilisation;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
    • H60 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - General

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:1237-en. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/edoecfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.