The OECD has published a paper on housing entitled ’Measuring Effective Taxation of Housing: Building the foundations for policy reform’. The paper measures the effective taxation of housing in 40 OECD member countries. The paper derives both Marginal Effective Tax Rates (METRs) and Average Effective Tax Rates (AETRs), which incorporate the stream of income and taxes over the life of the housing investment and finds that the level and components of housing taxation depend heavily on the investment scenario.
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