Taxation and Housing Markets: Preliminary Evidence on the Effects of Recent Tax ReformsJames M. Poterba
NBER Working Paper No. 3270 (Also Reprint No. r1611) The tax changes of the 1980s altered the incentives for housing consumption. Marginal tax rate reductions in both the Economic Recovery Tax Act (1981) and the Tax Reform Act (1986) reduced the attraction of homeownership, particularly at high income levels. The Tax Reform Act, by lowering depreciation allowances and implementing anti-tax shelter provisions, also reduced the net tax subsidy to rental housing. In the long run these changes will raise real rents and reduce the fraction of national income that is allocated to housing. Preliminary evidence shows a pronounced decline in rental housing construction since the 1986 tax bill, as well as a decline in the real price of owner-occupied homes which may be partly attributable to the tax change.
Machine-readable bibliographic record - MARC, RIS, BibTeX Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w3270 Published: Slemrod, Joel (ed.) Do Taxes Matter? The Impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990. Users who downloaded this paper also downloaded* these:
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