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FF to drop Stamp Duty

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    #62
    The_Minister
    Registered Users Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    gandalf wrote:
    I think you need to check your tap water The_Minister if you really believe the PD's will have more seats than Labour after the dust settles!!!
    1. Hypothetically.
    2. Labour are in for a decrease.
    3. PDs once got close to twice as many votes as Labour.


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    #63
    miju
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,486 ✭✭✭miju


    Sniipe wrote:
    Exactly SkepticOne ^^ he certainly bought mine :) Only thing I'm worried about for furture house buyers is that the house price may go up anyway to what it would have been with the stamp duty...

    I've never been as interested in an election :) this is fantastic... so close :)

    dont be worrying about houses prices going up they're only going one way and thats down (as they have already been). stamp duty is nothing other than a very large white elephant standing in the corner of the room that will be as plain as day after the election


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    #64
    stepbar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    ballooba wrote:
    Fianna Fail will not be able to form a government solely with the PDs after the G.E. They know it too.

    If their campaign keeps going the way it is, even FG wouldn't be able to give them a leg up. :D

    A shur the PD's dont even know who their candidates are for heaven sake (As per Today's Evening Hearld). How would you expect them to form a govenment? :D


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    #65
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    The_Minister wrote:
    1. Hypothetically.
    I think that can be replaced with Realistically
    2. Labour are in for a decrease.
    In the polls maybe but I think they will increase their numbers of seats realistically
    3. PDs once got close to twice as many votes as Labour.

    And the Liberals once formed Governments in the UK.


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    #66
    ballooba
    Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭ballooba


    The_Minister wrote:
    Are you saying that if it came down to it, that Labour didn't have the numbers but the PDs did, that we wouldn't see a FG/PD/Green coalition?
    Lose the growler, take a five year time out, then we'll talk. ;)


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    #67
    McSandwich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 593 ✭✭✭McSandwich


    I believe that abolishing stamp duty for first time buyers in this manner could make things worse:

    A ftb does not have to pay stamp duty on property valued up to €317,500. Sellers, aware of this, will often put a property on the market at below the duty threshold - to attract ftbs. Obviously this is dependent on the property value..

    If stamp duty is abolished for ftb, sellers will no longer have the same incentive to keep prices below the threshold.


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