Editing Imputed rent (section)

==Effects of owner-occupancy==

* Imputed rents disappear from [[measures of national income and output]], unless figures are added to take them into account.
* The government loses the opportunity to [[tax]] the transaction. Sometimes, governments have attempted to tax the imputed rent (Schedule A of United Kingdom's [[income tax]] used to do that), but it tends to be unpopular.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} Some countries still tax the imputed rent, such as Belgium, Iceland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/taxing-homeowners-as-if-they-were-landlords/ |title=Taxing Homeowners as if They Were Landlords |first=Bruce |last=Bartlett |date=2013-09-03 |accessdate=2013-12-20}}</ref> The absence of taxes on imputed rents is also referred to as ''Home-Ownership Bias''.

In population datasets like the [[Cross-National Equivalent File]], imputed rent is estimated:
* for owner-occupiers, as a small percentage (4–6%) of the capital accrued in the property
* for public housing tenants, as the difference between rent paid and the average rent for a similar property in the same location
* for those living rent-free, as the estimate of the rent they would have to pay to rent a similar property in the same location
* for renters in the private market, as zero