Development, Governance, and Real Property Tax in China

• Main Author: Hou, Yilin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China
• Subjects: Asia-Politics and government.; Political economy.; Regionalism.; Economic policy.; Economic development.; Asian Politics.; International Political Economy.; Development Policy.; Regional Development.

This book offers an analysis of China in its muddling through of financial reforms towards adopting a local real property tax. The research is designed to serve dual purposes. First, it is an effort to provide an independent perspective on an urgent public policy under consideration by the Chinese g...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 2. Why the Real Property Tax? A Fiscal System's Approach
• 3. Housing Provision Reform and the Real Estate Sector
• 4. Why China Needs a Real Property Tax - Empirical Evidence
• 5. Institutional Obstacles to China in Adopting the Real Property Tax
• 6. Principles for the Design of the Real Property Tax
• 7. Strategies for Implementing the Local Real Property Tax
• 8. 8. Simulation of Tax Incidence and Redistribution Effects of the Tax Proposal
• 9. Conclusion: Towards Balanced Development and Harmonious Governance.