Housing Market Responses to Transaction Taxes: Evidence From Notches and Stimulus in the U.K.
Abstract
We investigate housing market responses to transaction taxes using administrative data on all property transactions in the U.K. from 2004 to 2012 combined with quasi-experimental variation from tax notches and tax stimulus. We present two main findings. First, transaction taxes are highly distortionary across a range of margins, causing large distortions to the price, volume, and timing of property transactions. Secondly, temporary transaction...
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Title
Housing Market Responses to Transaction Taxes: Evidence From Notches and Stimulus in the U.K.
Published Date
Jun 24, 2017
Volume
85
Issue
1
Pages
157 - 193
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