AN ANALYSIS OF DR SUN,YAT,SEN SELF-ASSESSMENT SCHEME FOR LAND TAXATION
AN ANALYSIS OF DR SUN,YAT,SEN SELF-ASSESSMENT SCHEME FOR LAND TAXATION
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01053368
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发表时间:
1994-01-01
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影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
TAN, GF
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作者:
NIOU, EMS;TAN, GF
Dr. Sun Yat-sen1 proposed a method of self-assessment of land value in 1905 Under his scheme, each owner submits his own valuation but the state reserves the right to purchase the land at the self-assessed value. Sun claimed that this scheme would deter landowners from under-assessing their property, and the annual tax would discourage them from over-valuation. The origin of Sun's self-assessment method is not clear. In 1891, New Zealand passed a Land and Income Tax Act, based on a" self-assessment with the shrewd device of making Government's purchase at the tax value an effective check on the owner's assessment"(Condliffe 1930: 182). Although remarkably similar to Sun's proposal, no evidence indicates a connection between the two. Others have argued for similar schemes for the taxation of economic rent Harberger (1965), in his study of Latin America tax reform, proposed a variation of Sun's scheme. Under his scheme, each property owner publicly declares the value of his own property, and is required to sell his property to any bidde who is willing to pay, say, 20 per cent more than the declared value. He argues that this simple scheme is self-enforcing, allows no scope for corruption, h negligible costs of administration, and creates incentives for efficient alloca tion of each property. Nuti (1988) recently suggests a procedure for capita valuation and interfirm mobility in Soviet-style enterprises. He argues that the investment miscalculation and mismanagement created by the lack of a stoc market in planned economies can be eradicated only if enterprises are penalized for their failure to maintain the market value of the investment and for their inability to utilize it better than other enterprises. He proposed that enterprise managers assess the current value of their productive assets and register it wit a central public record office. Subsequently, any other state enterprise can bid for the enterprise's productive assets. The challenged enterprise either revises the valuation of its assets to equal the highest bid or it has to sell the assets at