FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3 - Threadbanned User List in OP

Vacant Property Tax will generate much needed housing supply – O’Dowd - Fine Gael

Deputy O’Dowd said, “I have no doubt the vast majority of the country would back the introduction of a common-sense Vacant Property Tax to generate much needed housing supply.

“We have clear evidence from the city of Vancouver that it will successfully bring vacant units back into use, as they saw a 25% decrease in vacant properties following the introduction of the tax.

“Not only will it encourage vacant property owners to act but the revenue from its introduction could be ringfenced to strengthen the Local Authority Voids budget. The Vancouver model, which now applies a tax on empty homes of 1.25% of the property’s value, would also generate tens of millions of euros each year.

In an attempt to muddy the waters, the FGers are completely missing the point. FG themselves think its a great idea, my point is why wait until 2022 ???

Thats a Fine Gael website link by the way 😉

Vacant property tax targeted at institutional landlords who leave apartments lying empty under 'serious consideration' (thejournal.ie)

The Business Post recently reported that hundreds of top-end apartments in Dublin are lying empty despite a chronic shortage of rental stock.

It found that a detailed analysis of the Residential Tenancies Board’s register shows that a number of recently developed apartment schemes – charging between €2,000 and €10,000 a month – have a large number of vacancies.

The newspaper also revealed that 100 of the 190 apartments in the 22-storey Capital Dock near Grand Canal are vacant.

It is understood that government is assessing if triple or quadruple levels of the Local Property Tax should kick in for apartments that have been vacant for more than six months. 

Landlords would have to self declare their vacancies, it is believed. The aim is to bring the properties back into use, while possibly encouraging landlords to lower the rent asked for the apartments if they cannot get tenants for the price asked.

Yes yes, ridiculous carry on 😂

I am not going down to your level. Read my posts and consider yourself enlightened.

As for the government, they need to implement the tax in 2021.

increasing welfare to those that will spend it makes perfect sense, as this provides urgently needed money directly into the economy, all citizens benefit from this

maybe our birth rates will miraculously increase or something!

Would you rather they do nothing?

Is this 'put words in people's mouth' day? 🤣

You know exactly what I would rather. 100% you do. I made it very clear. Repeatedly. Do it now. In the budget.

Don't be so disingenuous like dudley.

Here is the post dudley. What do you think I am saying? You saying the CSO data is rubbish now?

Something about a new plantation in Mayo right?

Oh no, you thought that I thought a vacant property tax meant 200k homes would be sold immediately....right?

Stop spoofing.

Or we go back to the days when people took the roof off so they didn't pay rates, energy costs in heating some of these old houses is crazy, there's one near me with a G rating that's been for sale for 11 years,

The great thing about trying to copy Thanksgiving is that everyone has a reason to hate it.

Standard curmudgeons who just resent Plastic Paddies instinctively? Yep. Lefties who make a big thing of the Famine/tribe donations, yep. Nationalists, yep. Right wing cranks who piss themselves about "globalisation", yep. Weird airy fairy hippy neo pagan types, yep. Catholics, yep. Even peripheral FFGheads who like to wheel out the Choctaw scholarship can't exactly be jumping for joy.

Who is left apart from people hermetically sealed in FFG PR land?