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Strange Tax / stamp duty on rented apartment - Query

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  • 28-09-2007 2:07pm
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    Eglinton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 992 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Our letting agency for our apartment wants us to pay some sort of tax because our rent from January 2008 will exceed a certain threshold. I have never heard of this. They said is would be about €200+. One of my housemates has bee renting the place for 5 years and I have been there 1.5 years. Seems odd to me. If it's legal then fine but I don't want to have to pay something that is really the landlord's responsibility.

    Any know anything about this? Thanks.


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    #2
    antoinolachtnai
    Registered Users Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭antoinolachtnai


    It's stamp duty and is due to the revenue. It was discussed here a few weeks ago. It's your responsibility to pay it, not the landlord's or the agent's. I would tell the agent that you will look after it yourself. The agent has no power to collect it from you if you are already in the apartment.


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    calsatron
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭calsatron


    If your rent exceeds €19,050 a year then its 1% of the annual rent, presuming your lease is less than 35yrs.


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