Real Estate Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
7-2004
Publication Source
Journal of Public Economics
Volume
88
Issue
7-8
Start Page
1543
Last Page
1565
DOI
10.1016/S0047-2727(03)00036-7
Abstract
We provide new evidence on the asset price incidence of corporate-level investment subsidies by examining the relative stock price performance of publicly traded companies in the real estate industry that should have been differentially affected by the capital gains tax rate reduction enacted in the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. By comparing real estate firms that have an organizational structure that allows entities who sell property to it to defer capital gains taxes and that plan to use the structure to acquire property with those that do not, we isolate the effect of the tax cut from industry trends and firm-level heterogeneity. When we examine the time period surrounding the reduction in the capital gains tax rate, our results suggest the tax change was substantially capitalized into lower share prices for these firms and the benefit of the seller’s capital gains tax deferral accrued mainly to the buyer of an appreciated property.
Copyright/Permission Statement
© 2004. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Keywords
tax incidence, tax capitalization, REITS
Recommended Citation
Sinai, T., & Gyourko, J. (2004). The Asset Price Incidence of Capital Gains Taxes: Evidence From the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and Publicly-Traded Real Estate Firms. Journal of Public Economics, 88 (7-8), 1543-1565. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0047-2727(03)00036-7
Date Posted: 27 November 2017
This document has been peer reviewed.