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245 4 _aThe hidden homeownership welfare state
_ban international long-term perspective on the tax treatment of homeowners
_cKonstantin A. Kholodilin, Sebastian Kohl, Artem Korzhenevych and Linus Pfeiffer
500 _aResumen.
504 _aBibliografía.
520 _aWelfare is traditionally understood as social security decommodifying labour markets or as social investment policies. In the domain of housing, however, welfare for homeowners is largely hidden in the tax codes' fiscal exemptions. Based on a content analysis of legislation, this article introduces a novel yearly database of 37 countries between 1901 and 2020 to uncover the “hidden welfare state” of taxes on imputed rent, deductibility of mortgage payments, housing capital gains tax, and value-added tax on newly built dwellings. Summary indices of homeownership attractiveness and neutrality of the tax code show that fiscal homeownership policies have been in decline until the 1980s and risen ever since. They are in place where finance is liberally and labour restrictively regulated. Contrary to the classical welfare state, they are not associated with an economic logic of industrialism or left-wing governments. They rather are an alternative to rent regulation used by Common-law jurisdictions or smaller countries. As welfare for property owners, the logic of fiscal homeownership welfare diverges from the classical welfare for the labouring classes.
650 _aVIVIENDA
_948710
650 _aIMPUESTOS
_947460
650 4 _aGASTOS FISCALES
_950212
650 4 _aNEUTRALIDAD
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650 4 _aESTADO DEL BIENESTAR
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700 1 _970816
_aKholodilin, Konstantin A.
773 0 _9169739
_oOP 1793/2023/1
_tJournal of Public Policy
_w(IEF)17584
_x 0143-814X
_g v. 43, n. 1, March 2023, p. 86-114
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