The recent introduction of a tax on property sales should help limit the rise in property prices but not enough to lower speculators' expected returns.

最近引入的房地产销售税，应有助于抑制房地产价格的上涨，但不足以降低投机者的预期收益。

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This decline has meant that the overall figure on which the city's property tax is based—the assessed value of that real estate—has also declined.

这种下降意味着作为该市财产税基础的整体数字——房地产的评估价值——也在下降。

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The county plans to eliminate the property tax and support schools with a new three percent sales tax on all retail items sold in the county.

该县计划取消财产税，并对在该县销售的所有零售商品征收新的3%的销售税来支持学校。

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But asked about an annual tax on property, the so-called "mansion tax" long championed by the Lib Dems, he said "that is not going to happen".

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In the early 1990s the capital gains tax on property was boosted to 90% and this was before a slew of other property exactions were piled on.

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Behind the scenes Lib Dem ministers are telling their Tory coalition partners - if you're determined to drop this tax we need something in return which will show that the government is committed to fairness eg a new tax on property.

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