ZT: NZ officials work on foreign buyers register

NewLynnHse

难道是要抓“狐狸”？

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11371447

Officials have been quietly working on a register of foreign buyers of New Zealand real estate even as the Government shrugged off the need for such information, it emerged today.

Earlier this year the Government indicated it was cold on the idea of a register of foreign buyers amid growing concern about offshore investors' role in driving up property prices, particularly in Auckland.

Last week however, Finance Minister Bill English and Prime Minister John Key said officials were keeping an eye on Australia's work towards a register of foreign buyers and wouldn't rule out following suit.

This morning Mr English said he understood some work was already underway amongst New Zealand officials on the issue.

"I gather there's some going on."

Mr English said he understood that work had been going on for some time.

"This issue's been around for a couple of years, there's nothing new about it."

Mr Key, on the other hand, said he wasn't aware of any work being done on a register of foreign buyers.

"According to the advice I've had this afternoon Land Information might be looking at the broader issue but as far as I'm aware they're not working on a register and I've always said and maintained, we could always introduce a register but the real issue here is building new houses."

Land Information Minister Louise Upston said she didn't have details on the work being done by officials.

"They're just doing some preliminary investigation about what it might look like, what data they might need, those sorts of things.

"There's been a number of questions I've asked over the last couple of months so they've just been doing some preliminary work to see where it goes.

Those questions were around the type of data being collected.

"I'll be interested to see what they come back with but as I say it's not a priority.

"I think it's important the department keeps an eye on what's going on overseas. I'd expect them to keep up with what's happening in other countries and if they have any suggestions about how we can do things differently I'm interested to know what that advice is."

Labour's housing spokesman Phil Twyford said news of officials' "secret" work on the register came as a surprise.

"It wasn't very long ago that the Government was saying it was racist or xenophobic to even propose such a thing, now we find out they've actually been developing a register for foreign buyers.

"It's just another example of the Government not being upfront with New Zealanders.

"Clearly this register was a policy they were planning to launch as a big start to next year. Too bad their secret register has been discovered."

kingscat

他们可能出台和其他国类似政策：

• 外国人首付80%
• 外国人只允许购买新建的一手公寓(新房)以及leasehold ；
• 外国人出租收益付另外的税；
• 资金来源证明
  

这样对本地房产不会有负面推动而增加就业机会

七种武器之喷子

应该与狐狸关系不大，估计会学澳洲，只允许外国人购买新房。