Tuesday 20 December 2011

The relevant pages from my BA final year project

Here's what I had to say on the topic of tax-breaks and subsidies fifteen years ago, based on real life i.e. working as a tax advisor in Germany where are large part of what we did was explaining to our clients how to milk the tax breaks (i.e. subsidies) for new construction and landlords. You then have to find the economic theory which explains the impact of taxes and subsidies and prices and quantity, then you test the theory against real life and so on until you find something which stacks up.

To enlarge, you have to right click on each image and choose 'open in new window'. You can then enlarge the image (click the magnifying glass) and they are perfectly legible:

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Land isn't still 10% of the cost of housing is it?

AC1

dearieme said...

By the time the print is big enough for me to read, it's too fuzzy for me to read. But I suspect I can guess its thrust anyway.

Mark Wadsworth said...

AC1, I wrote that 15 years ago and the 10% figure related to England at the time.

D, yes, Blogger has changed the way they embed pictures, you have to zoom in first and then click the picture to go into a new screen.

dearieme said...

15 years => 1996, so why not just turn the Word file into a pdf and make it available to the world?

Mark Wadsworth said...

D, if truth be told, I probably have it in .wps format on a floppy disk somewhere, it'd be quicker retyping it than trying to retrieve the electronic version.

Anonymous said...

Anyone know what's the location cost element of housing now?

AC1

Mark Wadsworth said...

AC1, broadly speaking and across the UK as a whole, it's a bit more than half. No comparison to 15 years ago.

Robin Smith said...

AC1

My pension/castle/income is worth £400k

It would cost 75k to build.

The location value is £325k

75/325 = 77%

It will be lower at the start of a business cycle, high at the end. We are still at the high end because prices are still being propped up by labour and capital.

So say 50-80%


Ive had a few beers so may have got the maths wrong.

Am looking for the macro economics of Germany as we speak as per the last thread.