Path Selection For Local Government Get Rid Of "Land Finance" Preference

Since twenty-first century,"land finance" has received widespread attention, andbecome a hot topic. With unceasing expansion of the proceeds of land transfer scale,the local government is more and more dependent on "land finance", which alleviatesthe local finance income gap, but also caused many disadvantages. With the localgovernment to "sell" preference to deepen, area of our country farmland is decreasingyear by year, food safety is browbeaten, forced migration, due to strong behavior ledto social contradictions have become increasingly prominent.What is more serious isthat, the shortcut that increase financial revenue has not sustainable and periodic, butbrought local government great financial risk and financial risk. If the existingsituation that local government excessive dependence on "land finance" can not go tochange, will promote a new round of "enclosure" upsurge, aggravated disorderlyexpansion of city, restrict our city economy sustainable development.Therefore, howto get rid of the local government’s preferences of "land finance", and protect thelocal government have sufficient revenues to city construction, is serious problemsour country faces at present. Through to transition research on “land financial”,provide an effective way to solve these problems, have important real significance.Based on the cause of "land finance" reason on deep administrative levels,including large local fiscal gap resulted from the uncompleteble reform of the taxsystem, a land monopoly of government under the existing land system, land transferincome distribution mechanism is unreasonable and performance evaluation systemfocus on economic index and other factors, put forward scientifically path selectionfor “land finance” transformation.First, deepen our current tax system reform,eliminate the "land finance" root causes. Reasonable division of the central and localauthorities, and make it match with government finance, reduce local governmentfiscal gap. Establish a stable system of local tax, form sustainable local financeincome.At the same time, must improve our fiscal transfer payment system, not onlyto adjust the central and local government relations, but also to maintain the localgovernment between horizontal equilibrium, so that our country’s economy andsociety harmonious would get development.Secondly, improve the systemconstruction about "land finance" to curb the system incentives of "land finance".Mainly include: normative the management and use of land leasing and land tax collection; instead the land leasing system for land annual rent system, safeguard theland and financial resources intergenerational equity; reform of urban-rural landsystem, perfect the system of the right to land use; perfect the mechanism of landrevenue allocation, balancing the interests of all parties, to reduce the social risks;perfect officials’ achievement assessment mechanism which for point of the welfare ofcitizens.Of course, these reform measures must be multi-pronged, mutual cooperationand coordination, in order to allow local governments to rid itself of the "landfinance" preferences, form a sustainable financial model.