Which countries have good property tax policies?

The effect of property tax policies in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States is still good.

The World Bank once said: levying property tax will face great political pressure.

This pressure comes from the uniqueness of property tax.

Ordinary taxpayers get profits first and then pay taxes. For example, personal income tax, my income this month is 1 000, which is appropriate, because I have income, and I should enjoy part of it with the society. However, property tax is not the concept at all. As long as the house is not for sale or rent, there will be no cash income. Since there is no income, how to collect taxes? Under such circumstances, collecting taxes is undoubtedly cutting the flesh of ordinary people. How to deal with this contradiction is the premise of levying property tax.

Look at the property tax in China. Although I think the collection of property tax is very important for the rationalization of the real estate market, it should not be collected in China at present. Even the purpose of collecting property tax is wrong! Actually take property tax to suppress housing prices! I just said that the property tax is very contradictory. This is how the United States handles it (Hong Kong and Singapore are similar in principle).

For example, my house was worth 2 million yuan last year, and it has appreciated to 265,438+million this year. The government draws 1.8% from this 65,438+million, that is, 1.8 million, and then uses this money for local education, increasing police force, strengthening public security, and building affordable housing for the poor and those who can't afford commercial housing. In areas where education is improved and public security is strengthened, house prices will naturally rise, and taxpayers' assets will continue to increase, but they only need to pay 0.8% of the 65438+ house price increase. In this way, Americans are naturally willing to pay property tax.

It can be seen that the purpose of American property tax is not to suppress housing prices, but to make the rich's commercial housing richer, and then collect taxes to benefit the poor, and build affordable housing for the poor to live in, so as to achieve the goal of everyone having a house to live in. It is worth mentioning that American officials are very efficient in handling official duties. There are generally three civil servants (towns) in one place in the United States, so there will be no large amount of three public expenditures. The person who evaluates the value of a house is usually appointed by a number of units with fiduciary responsibilities and evaluated with people who don't know each other. If the owner of the house thinks that the evaluation is too high or too low, he can appeal.

China's national conditions are completely different, and the purpose of property tax collection is different! We are trying to suppress housing prices, and the interests of the expropriated people are simply not reported. They can't get any benefits from it at all. And there are many problems that cannot be solved in the administrative process. How to evaluate the value of a house? Who will evaluate, whether it will breed corruption, the use of property tax, and whether the property tax conflicts with the housing transaction tax are all difficult problems to solve. And will the huge administrative expenses greatly reduce the funds used for affordable housing?

On the positive side, collecting real estate tax can be understood as buying time and money for the government to establish the affordable housing market and avoiding the financial crisis caused by the bursting of the real estate market bubble before the establishment of the affordable housing market.

On the negative side, some officials now still dream of living a good life as the former general land finance, so they don't want the house price to crush the people, and they don't want the real estate bubble to burst and the house price and land price to collapse, so they want to control it, raise it a little, lower it and raise it a little.

We can imagine, even if the house price falls by half, what can we do? So everyone can have a house to live in Impossible, can let most people have a house to live in? It's impossible! To solve the housing problem in China, there is no other way but to build affordable housing, and any other policy that deviates from this direction is wrong.