TAXES AND SPECULATIVE BEHAVIOR IN LAND AND REAL ESTATE MARKETS

Karl Case

Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, 1992, vol. 4, issue 2, 226-239

Abstract: Land and real estate speculation are common in many countries, and attempts to control them vary in both style and scope. This paper addresses the effectiveness of several approaches to discouraging land and real estate speculation, concluding that land holding taxes, short term gains taxes, and transaction taxes have all proven to be relatively unsuccessful methods of control. The paper discusses housing price booms and busts in the United States, and describes attempts to control speculation, notably the Vermont Land Gains Tax, the Taiwan Land Value Increment Tax, and the Real Property Gains Tax of Japan.

Date: 1992
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