House prices and immovable property tax: Evidence from OECD countries

Tommaso Oliviero (), Agnese Sacchi, Annalisa Scognamiglio and Alberto Zazzaro ()

Metroeconomica, 2019, vol. 70, issue 4, 776-792

Abstract: This paper studies the impact of changes in immovable property tax revenues on the growth rate of house prices by analysing a panel of 34 OECD countries over the period 1970–2014. Starting from the annual series of immovable property tax revenues, we isolate years of significant shifts in the property tax regime and study their impact on house prices. We find a strong negative relationship between increases in immovable property tax revenues and house prices. This relationship is robust to the inclusion of cyclical determinants of house prices, country and year fixed effects, and country‐specific linear trends. We also propose an instrumental variable strategy based on countries’ legal origins that confirms a statistically significant negative impact of such taxes in the short run.

Date: 2019
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