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Housing Minister to clamp down on poor planning decisions

General, Home, Industry News, Property News

The Minister for Housing and Planning, Jan O’Sullivan TD, has informed local authorities that she will invoke her legal powers to clamp down on poor planning decisions at local level. The Minister has informed local authorities of her intention to invoke her Section 31 powers…

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Revenue to chase 400,000 who have yet to pay household charge

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Local authorities are preparing to hand over a database to the Revenue Commissioners that will help identify almost 400,000 households who have yet to pay the household charge. New figures show almost 1.2 million – or 73 per cent – out of an estimated 1.6 million liable…

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10,000 calls a day to property tax helpline

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

In total, 64,294 calls have been received by the Revenue services overseeing the imposition of the controversial new charge, which kicks in on July 1. As of last Friday, Revenue had sent out 1,193,154 letters containing estimated tax bands for 1,351,289 properties covered by the…

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Hogan warns over exemptions

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan has warned that thinking you are excused from the property tax will not be an excuse for not paying. Last year 43,000 homes were exempt from the €100 household charge but that figure has been dramatically cut to just…

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Property tax will broaden tax base, insists Noonan

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has said the local property tax would broaden the base for taxation in a way that does not impact on jobs and provide stable funding for local authorities. The minister said it would, in turn, encourage greater efficiency by…

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Fianna Fáil hits out at "unfair" property tax

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

Fianna Fáil has hit back at the government’s new property tax proposals, branding them “unfair”. The opposition party has accused the government of ignoring “a fundamental canon of taxation law” in its proposals for the property tax. Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said “ability to…

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No information to be revealed about property tax before the Budget

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

No information will be revealed about the forthcoming property tax before December’s Budget, Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan has said. The tax on households is set to be implemented in the Budget but despite speculation over how it would be introduced, Minister Hogan is…

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Local authorities will set their own property tax rates in future

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

Local authorities will in time be given powers to set their own property tax rates in order to generate funds to support provision of services in their areas, Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan has said. According to The Irish Times, the development, announced by…

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Dublin councils set to reduce development levies

Building, Commercial Blog, Industry News, Mortgages & Money, Property News

Two local authorities in the capital have announced proposals to reduce their development levies in a bid to encourage developers to commence work on development properties. Dublin City Council plans to reduce the level of contributions for residential development from €156.62 per sqm to €115.21…

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Fianna Fáil calls for delay of property tax

Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

Fianna Fáil has called on the government to abandon the introduction of a full property tax next year. Senator Darragh O’Brien has accused the Fine Gael/Labour coalition of making an “utter mess” of the issue and said it was being rushed through without proper discussion.…

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