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Do taxes on foreign purchases lower housing prices? Evidence from B.C. in Canada (Apr 2020)

  • Do taxes on foreign purchasers lower housing prices? Evidence from the Additional Property Transfer Tax in British Columbia

  • By Deaglan Jakob. Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science, Honours, in the Department of Economics University of Victoria, April 2020

  • Available as a PDF file on https://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/economics/assets/docs/djakob_thesis1.pdf​

  • Abstract:

    • Housing affordability is an increasingly important public policy challenge not only in Canada, but also worldwide.

    • The B.C. [British Columbia] provincial government introduced the Additional Property Transfer Tax [APTT] in Metro Vancouver as a surprise legislation on August 2nd, 2016.

    • It imposed an additional 15% transfer tax on individuals or firms purchasing homes in Metro Vancouver who are not citizens or permanent residents of Canada.

    • In February 2018, the government extended the tax to several other regions in British Columbia, including Greater Victoria.

    • I exploit the heterogeneous regional implementation of the APTT to test its effectiveness in slowing the excessive growth in house prices in affected regions andincreasing housing affordability for local residents.

    • I find that the APTT reduces relative house price growth by approximately 1%. I also find that this effect is mostly front-loaded, with the decrease inrelative growth occurring immediately after the announcement of the tax and fading over a period of 7months.

  • Keywords: Canada, British Columbia, property transfer tax, property market

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