| Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying imposed the city’s first property tax targeted at overseas buyers as U.S. monetary easing and record-low interest rates boost the risk of a housing bubble.
Non-local and corporate buyers will have to pay a 15 percent tax upon purchase, Financial Secretary John Tsang told reporters at a press conference on Oct. 26. The government also raised a resale tax on property by about 5 percentage points and extended the period during which it will apply to three years from two...............................................Full Article: Source
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