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2018
- handle: 10670/1.a4kd59
- doi: 10.24187/ecostat.2018.500t.1951
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Duties Fee system (Taxation) Taxation, Incidence of Tax reform Tax policy Taxes Real property--Law and legislation Catastral surveys Real estate law Cadastral surveys Realty Property, Real Freehold Real estate Limitations (Law) Urban housing Homes Slum clearance Housing needs Housing--Social aspects Houses Affordable housing ResidencesCiter ce document
Guillaume Bérard et al., « The impact of the 2014 increase in the real estate transfer taxes on the French housing market », Economie et Statistique, ID : 10.24187/ecostat.2018.500t.1951
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This paper estimates the effects of an increase in the share of the real estate transfer taxes (RETT) rates going to the French départements from 3.80% to 4.50%. Not all the départements voted the RETT increase on the same date, which is the starting point of a natural experiment. Using a difference-in-differences design, we estimate two main effects. (1) An anticipation effect, one month before the implementation of the reform, in order to avoid the RETT increase. (2) A retention effect in the post-reform period. In the end, the net effect (retention minus anticipation) corresponds to an average drop in transactions of around 6% over the first three months after the reform, that is, approximately 15,000 transactions lost at national level. If we find a short term effect of the reform, we do not find evidence of a medium-or long-term effect.