China's reform: a real estate tax

The Chinese government has more than six years to levy taxes on residential housing.　　But today, the problems and controversies are not less, but more.　　The intention of the Chinese government to levy a real estate tax, which is initially called a property tax, is to improve the distribution of taxation, to provide a stable source of income for local grassroots governments and to enhance their ability to provide public services. However, with the urban housing prices soaring, the income gap between the residents widening, the protection of housing shortage and so on increasingly prominent contradictions, the government in imperceptible, will raise income, curb house prices, adjust income distribution and many other functions to give real estate tax.　　In this way, the levy of real estate tax has become increasingly complex.　　At present, the government's work focuses on the establishment of real estate database, the construction of evaluation system, the design of real estate tax framework and the consolidation of tax and fee. But the common people's concern and the question is more. For example, the government has sold land at high prices, whether the tax is reasonable; government control of land supply, levying new taxes will not necessarily lead to falling house prices; real estate tax burden has been heavy, the new levy is hard to bear; China's land only a certain period of use, copying the western practice of the housing tax is not reasonable; Real estate tax is a benefit tax　　But the local government spends money, the citizen does not have the real participation opportunity, is difficult to guarantee the real estate tax initiation to let the community inhabitant benefit, etc. At present, China's overall tax burden is heavier, the government to provide public goods is not efficient, quantity and serious shortage, the levy of new tax resistance is very large is inevitable.　　Let the taxpayer recognize real estate tax, willing to pay taxes, the government must first reflect, whether to ensure that the tax "take from the people, with the people." As experts say, the introduction of the real estate tax technology is not difficult to solve the problem is to weigh the multiple interest relations. The reform of real estate tax is not only the change of public income structure, but also the relationship between local government and people.　　It is necessary to further improve the local democratic supervision system and increase the public participation of local budget so as to ensure the real realization of the social and economic benefits of real estate tax. --Editor's introduction of real estate Tax: Framework and rationale real estate tax reform: power and Resistance real estate tax "land finance" problem solving in the property market puzzle