IMF Study Advocates China Property Tax, Higher Rates

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China should raise interest rates further and impose a property tax to curb the risk of asset bubbles and a “disorderly fall” in home prices, according to a study by the International Monetary Fund.

Existing measures “at best only treat the symptoms of high residential real-estate inflation and not the underlying structural causes,” the IMF working paper said today.