The problems of land in our country include space narrowness, the land price rising from the rapid industrialization and urbanization, a partial possession of land, and possessing privately betterment. The most acute problem among them is the possibil...
The problems of land in our country include space narrowness, the land price rising from the rapid industrialization and urbanization, a partial possession of land, and possessing privately betterment. The most acute problem among them is the possibility of private processing betterment from the incomplete withdrawal to that. A betterment, a kind of unearned income incites the land price rising, depresses the labouring will, and distorts the equitable distribution of wealth. There are both of taxational methods and untaxational ones as the means of withdrawing betterment. But in effect, their impact are slight. The reasons include an institutional incompleteness to limit the payers irrationally, too low tax rate of land possession and too many tax-free or tax-exempt items. The improvement strategies to these problems can be presented as followings.
First, the tax systems relevant to land should be strengthened remarkably, the contents of which are gradual raising the tax base of comprehensive land possession tax, unificating the tax base into seperate land price, replacing the tax-free items such as many parts of capital gain tax with tax reduction, and improving the various official land price systems.
Second, the possibility of foreign systems introduction should be investigated. Related with thIs aspect, the transfer of development rights system(TDR) in America and land value extension tax in Taiwan ore presented as the examples required to complement our current systems in this study.
Lastly, except these policies, the national absolute support is needed to make a success in operation of this system, and furthermore the conversion of recognition should be followed from the existing consciousness that laud exists only for me into the one that land is for everybody. The windfall gains recapture system should be advanced so as to contribute to the progess of national life and the welfare state building.