Category Archives: Property tax

What about small time landlords?

With less than 1 per cent of tenancies resulting in formal complaints, why are landlords seen as the ‘bad guys’? When it comes to landlords, the most common assumption is that if he/she is a small-time landlord, he/she will not do a good job of managing a property. The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) doesn’t provide […]

A flat line that bodes well for property

(this article is taken from Karl Deeter’s original article in the Sunday Business Post 4th September 2016) Property prices are on an upward spiral, and no one, including the government, can stop them An explanation is not an endorsement, so the cries of ‘unfair’ when I try to explain that there is a very high […]

The high rents that Jack built

This article originally appeared in the Sunday Business Post on the 24th of January. Jacking up rents quickly is a process that can’t occur now since new legislation was pushed through last December. But the question is: who jacks up rents and why? Empirically, the market is full of amateur landlords, but are they the […]

TV3 Morning Show, property tax

On TV3 today we talked about property tax, how it is collected, what it means and some of the things to be aware of (such as not paying!)

Spoofery on property tax

Almost everybody who isn’t a politician agrees that politicians lie. Actual politicians don’t see it that way, the see it as being forced to accept a series of working realities which unveils the way the system ‘actually works’ versus how we would ‘like it to work’. The truth is that in effect they do lie when you compare election promises to results, but they don’t do it with total intent.

But sometimes they do, and we are seeing that with our proposed property tax which is a clear demonstration of lap-dog leaders who want nothing more than to be ‘box tickers’ for the troika. You see, we are being told that ‘no decision has been made’, but that is contrary to the facts surrounding the debate once you do some digging.

TV3 The Morning Show – Property Tax

TV3 The Morning Show, this week we looked at property tax with Alan and Aisling, we focused on the need for a Site Value Tax rather than opting for a property tax based on the entire market value.

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RTE The Frontline: Household charge, 23rd January 2012

As far as a ‘system of taxation’ goes, we think that less income tax is a great idea, that instead site valuations and local costs or spending should be borne by the locality and paid to the local authority. That means that the Household Charge – while regressive – is the right type of tax being levied in the wrong way.

TV3: NAMA mortgages & Household Charges on ‘The Morning Show’

Once a month we head over to TV3’s ‘The Morning Show’ to talk with Sybil and Martin about the property and finance markets in an easy to understand manner, this month the topic was NAMA mortgages and household charges.

Independent: Struggling investors forced to sell at a loss

Mortgages with a total value of €1.3bn were now in arrears of three months or more. This represents 16pc of its €7.8bn buy-to-let mortgage book — up from 10pc in December. Low rents and difficulties finding tenants mean many buy-to-let investors lost money on their properties, director of Irish Mortgage Brokers Karl Deeter said.