کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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969079 | 1479438 | 2014 | 10 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• Temporary and unanticipated tax holiday on property transactions in the UK
• Surveyor's evaluations to construct treatment and control groups
• 8% increase in transaction volumes, reversed after the policy was withdrawn.
• 60% of the surplus accrued to the buyers.
This paper exploits the 2008–09 stamp duty holiday in the United Kingdom to estimate the incidence of a transaction tax on housing. The average reduction in the after-tax sale price is found to be around £900 against the backdrop of an average tax reduction of about £1500. While we estimate an increase in transactions of properties affected by the tax holiday around 8%, most of this effect appears to have reversed rapidly after the policy was withdrawn, suggesting mostly a short-term retiming of transactions. The findings are calibrated to a simple bargaining model to show they imply that about sixty percent of the surplus generated by the holiday accrued to buyers.
Journal: Journal of Public Economics - Volume 119, November 2014, Pages 61–70