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Dog Tax costs €2.9 million more than it raises

  • 26-11-2009 2:15pm
    #1
    mout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 ✭


    Dog tax raises €2.8 million, costs €5.7 to administer.

    http://www.leovaradkar.ie/?p=669

    For WRITTEN answer on Tuesday, 17th November, 2009.

    Ref No: 41533/09
    REPLY
    Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Mr. Gormley):

    In 2008 revenue from the sale of dog licences to local authorities was €2.8m. This compares to a cost of administering the service of €5.7m.



Comments

  • #2
    someoneok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭someoneok


    How much more evidence do people need before they realise we need to find alternative ways to run the country. Sad that people keep going back to the robbers for their property back. check out the actual translation of the irish constitution found at wethepeople.ie for a way to show the courts that our rights to have dogs or anything in fact are higher than any human statute. There are no provisions in the constitution for an income tax either.


  • #3
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    someoneok wrote: »
    There are no provisions in the constitution for an income tax either.

    I see no mention of hospitals there so should we close them ??


  • #4
    bamboozle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭bamboozle


    mout wrote: »
    Dog tax raises €2.8 million, costs €5.7 to administer.

    http://www.leovaradkar.ie/?p=669

    For WRITTEN answer on Tuesday, 17th November, 2009.

    Ref No: 41533/09
    REPLY
    Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Mr. Gormley):

    In 2008 revenue from the sale of dog licences to local authorities was €2.8m. This compares to a cost of administering the service of €5.7m.


    this really is a banana republic!


  • #5
    irishguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭irishguy


    Why the hell arent all public charges indexed, so things like thing would not happen?


  • #6
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,694 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    When you say cost to administer, are we talking dog wardens & the up keep of kennells or pencil pushers on flexi time...?


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  • #7
    Dannyboy83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,236 ✭✭✭Dannyboy83


    Dog tax.........wtf?:pac:

    How can you tax a dog?
    How about a friend tax?

    Judging by some of the facebook profiles around, we'd clean up.


  • #8
    ronbyrne2005
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭ronbyrne2005


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    When you say cost to administer, are we talking dog wardens & the up keep of kennells or pencil pushers on flexi time...?

    Just administer i'd bet. Typical example of public sector waste and inefficiency and bureaucracy.


  • #9
    ghost_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭ghost_ie


    ronbyrne2005 wrote: »
    Just administer i'd bet. Typical example of public sector waste and inefficiency and bureaucracy.

    Not very efficient administration going on. I renewed the dog licences for my 3 in February at the Post Office. I got a letter from the dog licence section in May telling me the I hadn't renewed the licences and requesting that I fork up immediately. When I rang them to say I'd actually renewed the licences three months previously I was told not to worry - the post office probably just hadn't got round to sending them in to the dog licensing section yet


  • #10
    ronbyrne2005
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭ronbyrne2005


    ghost_ie wrote: »
    Not very efficient administration going on. I renewed the dog licences for my 3 in February at the Post Office. I got a letter from the dog licence section in May telling me the I hadn't renewed the licences and requesting that I fork up immediately. When I rang them to say I'd actually renewed the licences three months previously I was told not to worry - the post office probably just hadn't got round to sending them in to the dog licensing section yet

    I could insure my dog online in no time and insurance is much more complex than a simple licence. Why cant it be do online and automated? That would surely cut a load of these clerical officers out of the cost .


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