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200 euro tax!

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    #2
    Grandadsbear
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 76 ✭✭Grandadsbear


    mike65 wrote: »
    Will this get extended to towed caravans?

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/mobilehome-owners-to-be-hit-with-8364200-property-tax-1793433.html


    Talk to Joe... it’s being discussed now...


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    zagmund
    Registered Users Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭zagmund


    I keep my campervan in the driveway at home - I can't see that being classified as a second home.

    Imagine the conversation with the judge -
    "So, where is this . . . motorhome . . . stored ?"
    "At home, yer onor"
    "You keep your second home in your first home ? How curious."
    "Yes, yer onor, that's what I was thinking meself, but you see it's not actually a home so I don't see how it fits into a second home tax."

    z


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    wilson10
    Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭wilson10


    zagmund wrote: »
    I keep my campervan in the driveway at home - I can't see that being classified as a second home.

    Imagine the conversation with the judge -
    "So, where is this . . . motorhome . . . stored ?"
    "At home, yer onor"
    "You keep your second home in your first home ? How curious."
    "Yes, yer onor, that's what I was thinking meself, but you see it's not actually a home so I don't see how it fits into a second home tax."

    z

    The subject of motorhomes has just come up on liveline & they are not included.


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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Towed caravans might get caught though.

    There are people that have them on hard stands in sites for most of the year (connected to electricity and water/waste water) and only ever take them away for a few weeks for holidays, if at all.


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    wilson10
    Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭wilson10


    peasant wrote: »
    Towed caravans might get caught though.

    There are people that have them on hard stands in sites for most of the year (connected to electricity and water/waste water) and only ever take them away for a few weeks for holidays, if at all.

    Imagine trying to collect a tax from that group of people who make up the majority of caravan users and class themselves as an "ethnic minority in their own country".

    That would be fun.


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