Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/103674 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Citation: 
[Journal:] BuR - Business Research [ISSN:] 1866-8658 [Volume:] 2 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] VHB - Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft, German Academic Association of Business Research [Place:] Göttingen [Year:] 2009 [Pages:] 11-37
Publisher: 
VHB - Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft, German Academic Association of Business Research, Göttingen
Abstract: 
We evaluate the profitability of investments in residential property in Germany after unification with a focus on the comparison of East and West Germany. Calculations are carried out for (1) the after-tax return an investor might have expected at the beginning of the 1990s, and (2) the after-tax return that has been realized ten years after. We compare a set of statistical data for investments in fifty major cities by using complete financial budgeting. The results show that tax subsidies could not always protect investors from losing money, but they have boosted realized returns after tax considerably. Therefore, it was indeed the taxpayers, not the investors, who have borne the cost of reconstructing East Germany.
Subjects: 
after-tax return on investment
assisted area law
empirical study
income tax reduction
loss offset
property prices
real-estate investment
return on equity capital
roe
special depreciation
tax subsidies
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