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Property tax

  • 25-10-2011 8:31pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭


    [as request to keep seperate topics]

    Just wondering what people who are living self sufficient in places like the UK and USA do about property tax, are any exempted for very low income or how do they manage.

    One of the big reasons I can't stand this impending tax or any other ownership tax like the 80 euro gun license is that it doesn't take into account people living self sufficient or with very little income.

    It seems like a tax to keep people 'on the grid' and dependent on the government or else just designed without the consideration that there are some people living self sufficient who don't use much for local services because they might not exist where these people are living


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    eth0 wrote: »
    ownership tax like the 80 euro gun license
    [ObPoint]Not actually an ownership tax; costs far less per annum than the ammunition unless you're using an airgun.[/ObPoint]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Different states have different property taxes and depending what kind of a state it is [IE an extreme to live in state like Alaska,it will have very low to nil,bar in the cities which are muncipility [sic]taxes for services,the cost of living is high,as everything has to be imported into Alaska.]
    In Arizona it is the water that is the expensive one,but property tax is low.In CAlifornia,it is the Sunshine and welfare system that you pay for..No wonder the state is broke!!:rolleyes:.
    It does also take into consideration what is the property value,wether it is easily accesible,wether it has power lines and whatnot. If you are living in a clapboard shack or trailer ,they wont charge you as much as if you built a 20 room palace on the same spot.It is alot more complex than just this,but it does still get you the one thing we Will not get here,thats service and efficency in fixing roads,collecting garbage etc,as we all know it is just another tax to Europe to pay for corrupt crooks who ruined this country with their gambling debts.:mad:

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    eth0 wrote: »
    [as request to keep seperate topics]


    It seems like a tax to keep people 'on the grid' and dependent on the government or else just designed without the consideration that there are some people living self sufficient who don't use much for local services because they might not exist where these people are living

    Perish the thought that there are people who actually DONT want the big brother state looking after them from cradle to grave!!!I mean they are weird ..And proably dangerous too,I mean look at America those "nutty "survivalists in Ruby ridge and Waco[factually wrong that point but try and explain it to the ignorant]...They proably have food stockpiled and ..shudder!! ....know about and own GUNS!!!:eek::eek:

    Yes,we must be all good little sheeple ..Ready to be slaughterd in wartime and shorn at tax time,so shut up pay your taxes and the kindly big brother EU state will look after you.NOT!!!!:mad::mad::mad:

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    Looks like that absolute miserable **** Phil hogan is intent on pushing this tax upon us. I really have no clue how you'd live self sufficient if you're expected to cough up a grand or more to the govt for owning a house.

    'Temporary' structures or doing up abandoned buildings in the middle of nowhere might be a plan. or else move to a country that doesn't have it like Iceland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Or possibly get out and protest about this??The more protesting the more they will have to reconsider.If a bunch of pensioners could fight for their pensions and get a U turn of Fine Failure. 150 hardcore activists could make the Iron lady back down on the Poll Tax in 80s Britan.What do us Irish need to get going???:rolleyes:

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    What do us Irish need to get going???:rolleyes:

    800 years of heavy oppression.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 761 ✭✭✭Agent_47


    It was clearly stated in the Sindo today that revenue will use the ESB NPRN number, PRTB and welfare to track home owners.
    So if you have no meter, a post box number and don't claim welfare you can avoid being caught for the tax :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭KrustyBurger


    Firstly I'm not defending the property tax, the government can dress it up any way it wants but essentially we're paying off bondholders for the gambling losses of private banks.

    However the idea of living off the grid is in my opinon not really feasible and therefore the idea of tax is not morally wrong. Sure you can be self sufficient but when it comes to things like hospitals, education, roads etc that are provided by the state then it's impossible to live off the grid competely.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Agent_47 wrote: »
    It was clearly stated in the Sindo today that revenue will use the ESB NPRN number, PRTB and welfare to track home owners.
    So if you have no meter, a post box number and don't claim welfare you can avoid being caught for the tax :D

    Be intresting to see how they will get around the data protection act on that one.TBH it was tried before on somthing revenue gathering exercise and failed miserably.:D This isnt the USA or the EU.It is still a Hell of a job to gather info on people here.[As a private eye I do a lot of this] and it is still go out and thump on doors,rather than mouse click still.

    @ krusty,
    Thing is we already pay for road usage.Called Road tax if you have a motor vechicle.
    Hospitals,keep your self fit and accident free, or alternative medicine.Education, home school your kids,and proably raise 100% smarter kids than what our learning factories produce.
    There is nothing wrong with taxation if it is being used for the upkeep and betterment of your society.However in this case it has nothing got to do with paying for our societies upkeep .It is simply money being thrown down a black hole to pay for irresponsible gambling debts of speculators.
    Nor is th is a fair tax either.It is already giving too many exemptions to the usual suspects.

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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,790 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »

    Thing is we already pay for road usage.Called Road tax if you have a motor vechicle.

    When's the last time you paid Road Tax or were taxed directly for road usage?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭skippey


    Like oil and water a property tax and Ireland just don't mix and seeing as they have brought it in it will probably be the reason that most of us will vote no to the next EU treaty referendum that they demand us to vote yes for.
    From interviews on the news i see Hogan , Noonan and gang are seeing if they can find a way to get it passed with out going to the people
    either way i while i pay all my taxes i wont pay this one
    That cabin in the mountains is looking mighty tempting for the future of me :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    When's the last time you paid Road Tax or were taxed directly for road usage?

    Six months ago,when I paid an outrageous sum for a piece of paper.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Six months ago,when I paid an outrageous sum for a piece of paper.
    That was motor tax grizz and goes straight into the exchequer, nothing to do with the roads at all


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    Im renting thank fook but am looking forward to the day im asked by the LL to pay this to him. Pay someone elses taxes for them??? not likely:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Trouble is Kildare,your LL isnt getting any benefit from this either...Same as PTRB registration which is for the tenants benefitt[whatever that benefit is I havent a clue..] Truth be told you ARE already as all of us are paying for somone elses bad debts and stupidity.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    I know im payin for others debts as it is and believe me i pay enough out of my pay cheque every week it makes me sick:( but if my LL thinks im going to pay this he has another thing coming!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭BigBoi83


    That was motor tax grizz and goes straight into the exchequer, nothing to do with the roads at all


    That explains why Irish roads are such a disgrace then...

    Surely the purpose of a MOTOR tax is to contribute towards the upkeep of our roads etc so we can use our motors..

    As far as paying a tax for using a road, wouldnt a TOLL road fall under that category


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    BigBoi83 wrote: »
    That explains why Irish roads are such a disgrace then...

    Surely the purpose of a MOTOR tax is to contribute towards the upkeep of our roads etc so we can use our motors..

    As far as paying a tax for using a road, wouldnt a TOLL road fall under that category

    Motor tax is to pay for brand new motorways that lead to Dublin and a variety of other non-road related uses


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Norwayviking


    eth0 wrote: »
    Motor tax is to pay for brand new motorways that lead to Dublin and a variety of other non-road related uses

    I thought the toll on the motorway was for that??????
    who is gettin the money there then??:eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    I thought the toll on the motorway was for that??????
    who is gettin the money there then??:eek:

    The lads who run the toll booths for the next 40 or so years


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Norwayviking


    eth0 wrote: »
    The lads who run the toll booths for the next 40 or so years

    Ok doesnt make sense though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    Ok doesnt make sense though

    Most toll roads here are 'public private partnership'.

    The govt pony up some of the money and some company ponies up another bit in return for being allowed charge tolls to the people who actually use the road. That company might also help with the construction of the road but after a given term (40 or 50 years) the road becomes property of the government again


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Norwayviking


    eth0 wrote: »
    Most toll roads here are 'public private partnership'.

    The govt pony up some of the money and some company ponies up another bit in return for being allowed charge tolls to the people who actually use the road. That company might also help with the construction of the road but after a given term (40 or 50 years) the road becomes property of the government again

    And then the motortax on top of this??
    Thats what i dont understand.
    Why cant the goverment control it all,and then hire some company to do the maintenance??
    Alot of money into some privat owned motorway,who probaly can adjust the rates as they please.:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭GY A1


    property tax

    will people pay it tho ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Norwayviking


    GY A1 wrote: »
    property tax

    will people pay it tho ;)

    Property tax i dont mind paying.
    Its just 100 euros, no big deal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭GY A1


    Property tax i dont mind paying.
    Its just 100 euros,big deal.


    it will start at 100, but how much next year, people cant afford more of this


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Norwayviking


    GY A1 wrote: »
    it will start at 100, but how much next year, people cant afford more of this

    I get that, but other countries have had property tax for a long time.
    It was really just a matter of time before it came to Ireland.
    In Norway we pay 0.5-0.7% of the market value of the house each year,its really nothing new to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Ok doesnt make sense though

    NOTHING very much in Irish life makes any sense at all NV:rolleyes:
    Apart from the fact that you as a taxpayer will foot the bill for some of the most dumbest,harebrained,idiotic schemes and ploys ever,while financing a bunch of incompetant clowns of all political hues to run this circus!:mad:

    WRONG!! It just STARTS at 100 Euros!!! by next year it could be 500 euros and if you own a "mansion".[Whatever the definition of such is in IrelandAnywhere else it is a house with over 20 rooms.Here it will proably be five!]you could be looking at 2 grand per annum!!!:(

    You can be assured you will still be paying for a private company to haul your rubbish away.The roads will still be pot holed,your libary will still be a joke,you will still have to drill a well for relatively clean water,or be installing a filtration system to clean the chemical swill the Irish laughingly call "tap water".So ,if you are a survivalist who has their own well,recycles 95 % of their rubbish,are nowhere near a libary,you pay motor or road tax for driving on the goat tracks..er ..roads here.What service from the councils are you getting for your 100 quid????
    You will get a fat assed Jobsworth in local govt thanking you for keeping them in the style they are accustomed to,nothing else!
    This is why its becoming a big deal here!!! Weare waking up to the fact that we are not getting value for our money from our Govt compared to Europe.
    Yeah in Norway and Europe it is the norm,but you have clean roads,clean water,proper public amenities,and dont have to worry about a bill to call the fire brigade.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Norwayviking


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    NOTHING very much in Irish life makes any sense at all NV:rolleyes:
    Apart from the fact that you as a taxpayer will foot the bill for some of the most dumbest,harebrained,idiotic schemes and ploys ever,while financing a bunch of incompetant clowns of all political hues to run this circus!:mad:

    WRONG!! It just STARTS at 100 Euros!!! by next year it could be 500 euros and if you own a "mansion".[Whatever the definition of such is in IrelandAnywhere else it is a house with over 20 rooms.Here it will proably be five!]you could be looking at 2 grand per annum!!!:(

    You can be assured you will still be paying for a private company to haul your rubbish away.The roads will still be pot holed,your libary will still be a joke,you will still have to drill a well for relatively clean water,or be installing a filtration system to clean the chemical swill the Irish laughingly call "tap water".So ,if you are a survivalist who has their own well,recycles 95 % of their rubbish,are nowhere near a libary,you pay motor or road tax for driving on the goat tracks..er ..roads here.What service from the councils are you getting for your 100 quid????
    You will get a fat assed Jobsworth in local govt thanking you for keeping them in the style they are accustomed to,nothing else!
    This is why its becoming a big deal here!!! Weare waking up to the fact that we are not getting value for our money from our Govt compared to Europe.
    Yeah in Norway and Europe it is the norm,but you have clean roads,clean water,proper public amenities,and dont have to worry about a bill to call the fire brigade.

    Yes and we also struggle with the same frustration in norway,where they have billions in a oil fund and dont spend a penny back home,all invested in foreign stocks,but still we have to pay tax to keep the country going.
    I remember when my mother and father was on 17% interst rate on there mortage and still had to pay property tax on top of this.
    So i dont mind paying at all:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    And then the motortax on top of this??
    Thats what i dont understand.
    Why cant the goverment control it all,and then hire some company to do the maintenance??
    Alot of money into some privat owned motorway,who probaly can adjust the rates as they please.:eek:

    Toll increases do have to be approved I think. The govt can do lots of things, like not bail out private companies, spend money efficiently, tell merkozy to feck off when they get too demanding. but they choose not to for various reasons we'll never understand

    I get that, but other countries have had property tax for a long time.
    It was really just a matter of time before it came to Ireland.
    In Norway we pay 0.5-0.7% of the market value of the house each year,its really nothing new to me.

    Property tax is a popular cash cow for governments alright and has been around in various forms for thousands of years because it's easy to collect and hard to avoid.

    FF had the good sense (back when they still had a bit of sense) to get rid of it but now the EU insist on having us bring it back because it makes Ireland a less apealing country to live in. It's like the low corporate tax rate, mainland Europe high-tax countries can't stand this and they intend to drain us out financially.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    Yes and we also struggle with the same frustration in norway,where they have billions in a oil fund and dont spend a penny back home,all invested in foreign stocks,but still we have to pay tax to keep the country going.
    I remember when my mother and father was on 17% interst rate on there mortage and still had to pay property tax on top of this.
    So i dont mind paying at all:D

    You see here for years we never had a bit of a decent road so when some private company agrees to build a proper motorway for once we don't mind paying a couple of euros to use it on top of our deliciously expensive motor tax. We're definitely getting more value out of the tolls than the ould dirt tracks the govt calls a National Route


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Norwayviking


    eth0 wrote: »
    Toll increases do have to be approved I think. The govt can do lots of things, like not bail out private companies, spend money efficiently, tell merkozy to feck off when they get too demanding. but they choose not to for various reasons we'll never understand




    Property tax is a popular cash cow for governments alright and has been around in various forms for thousands of years because it's easy to collect and hard to avoid.

    FF had the good sense (back when they still had a bit of sense) to get rid of it but now the EU insist on having us bring it back because it makes Ireland a less apealing country to live in. It's like the low corporate tax rate, mainland Europe high-tax countries can't stand this and they intend to drain us out financially.

    Yes its a cash cow for sure,but like grizzly mentioned,its also how its spent:(
    Its always nice to see alot of money on your account,but where is the money going to after???
    And yes its the EU question again.
    I have to say i liked Ireland better when the old Punts was here,but thats just my opinion,and would Ireland be ok to stay outside the EU like Iceland,Norway,Switzerland???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Norwayviking


    eth0 wrote: »
    You see here for years we never had a bit of a decent road so when some private company agrees to build a proper motorway for once we don't mind paying a couple of euros to use it on top of our deliciously expensive motor tax. We're definitely getting more value out of the tolls than the ould dirt tracks the govt calls a National Route

    i understand Eth.
    But i have to say that motorway did wonders though.;)
    I remember it took me atleast 2 hours before to get from the airport dublin to the midlands where i live,and you can do it under less than 1 hour now,not bad at all:D:D
    And i dont mind paying that either,in norway we pay 15 euros each time we go trough the toll on the motorway,and this is going straight to the goverment:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Yes its a cash cow for sure,but like grizzly mentioned,its also how its spent:(
    Its always nice to see alot of money on your account,but where is the money going to after???
    And yes its the EU question again.
    I have to say i liked Ireland better when the old Punts was here,but thats just my opinion,and would Ireland be ok to stay outside the EU like Iceland,Norway,Switzerland???

    If we wernt being shafted out of our fishing rights,our oil[if there is any off mayo,and our energy policy isnt being decided by a bunch of scruffy eco loons holding things up],and we had competant honest banks,not to mind some sort of heavy industry and the odd bit of iron or coal.:rolleyes:
    Plus more importantly politicans who actually had a pair between the lot of them.Who put their country first and not their bank accounts and pensions,and knew one foreign langauge.Its a criminal endightment on our education that ASFIK not ONE politican from Ireland can actually speak a European langauge fluently..99% of European politicans are able to speak at least three passably!!!:mad:No wonder they get fed so much BS.Everyone knows poor aul Paddy hasnt a clue what they are saying about him in Spanish,French or German.

    Then Yes we might be able to make a go of getting out of this crazy mess and start charting a countries destiny.But not to worry,by this time next year [Dec21st 2012].The EU or us or humanity all mightnt be here at all..Or we are having this chat around a campfire,after a hard days surviving..:D:D Proably by this time next yearr the EU will be changed as will the World be changed by the demise of the euro.

    Happy Winter Solstice everyone.:D

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    The EU or us or humanity all mightnt be here at all..Or we are having this chat around a campfire,after a hard days surviving..:D:D
    I'll have the brew on Grizz... :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 563 ✭✭✭bonniebede


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    we are having this chat around a campfire,after a hard days surviving..:D:D Proably by this time next yearr the EU will be changed as will the World be changed by the demise of the euro.

    Using euro notes as tinder:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Norwayviking


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    If we wernt being shafted out of our fishing rights,our oil[if there is any off mayo,and our energy policy isnt being decided by a bunch of scruffy eco loons holding things up],and we had competant honest banks,not to mind some sort of heavy industry and the odd bit of iron or coal.:rolleyes:
    Plus more importantly politicans who actually had a pair between the lot of them.Who put their country first and not their bank accounts and pensions,and knew one foreign langauge.Its a criminal endightment on our education that ASFIK not ONE politican from Ireland can actually speak a European langauge fluently..99% of European politicans are able to speak at least three passably!!!:mad:No wonder they get fed so much BS.Everyone knows poor aul Paddy hasnt a clue what they are saying about him in Spanish,French or German.

    Then Yes we might be able to make a go of getting out of this crazy mess and start charting a countries destiny.But not to worry,by this time next year [Dec21st 2012].The EU or us or humanity all mightnt be here at all..Or we are having this chat around a campfire,after a hard days surviving..:D:D Proably by this time next yearr the EU will be changed as will the World be changed by the demise of the euro.

    Happy Winter Solstice everyone.:D

    See your point Grizz,totally agree;):D:D:D
    I have some good brew here too,from Norway:D:D:D
    That thing around the campfire seems like a good idea:)
    Never mind the EU,i think that will resolve itself;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 Miss Sugarbabe


    I won't be paying the property tax. I bought in 2006 and paid 26K stamp duty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭Donadea Leo


    NV - I was in Oslo last year for a weekend with my wife - absolutely loved it - it may be hard to tell from just a weekend but there seemed to be a sense of fairness in the air - yes it was incredibly expensive but there seemed to be lots to show for where your money is going. Sure there were problems - drug addicts hanging around the bus station etc., but maybe the rose tinted spectacles made me feel like there's resources there to deal with them.
    I think our problem with this property tax is and all other money we pay to government, there is no accountability as to how its spent, the government think nothing of paying 35 million for a site then scrapping whateve plans they had for it. I think this is actually what people are asking for accountability and a government who put the needs of its society first.
    I don't doubt the integrity of our current government but I think they have just dived head first into sorting out or financial mess at the expensive of absolutely everything else.
    I am happy to pay a property tax if I know its being put to good use - I lived in England and every year we would get information from the council stating what was spent on local services using the council charge - that's fine by me.
    Why can't our government stop and think what they're trying to achieve - look to countries like Norway (correct me if I'm wrong NV) and follow their lead. It's surely not rocket science.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Norwayviking


    NV - I was in Oslo last year for a weekend with my wife - absolutely loved it - it may be hard to tell from just a weekend but there seemed to be a sense of fairness in the air - yes it was incredibly expensive but there seemed to be lots to show for where your money is going. Sure there were problems - drug addicts hanging around the bus station etc., but maybe the rose tinted spectacles made me feel like there's resources there to deal with them.
    I think our problem with this property tax is and all other money we pay to government, there is no accountability as to how its spent, the government think nothing of paying 35 million for a site then scrapping whateve plans they had for it. I think this is actually what people are asking for accountability and a government who put the needs of its society first.
    I don't doubt the integrity of our current government but I think they have just dived head first into sorting out or financial mess at the expensive of absolutely everything else.
    I am happy to pay a property tax if I know its being put to good use - I lived in England and every year we would get information from the council stating what was spent on local services using the council charge - that's fine by me.
    Why can't our government stop and think what they're trying to achieve - look to countries like Norway (correct me if I'm wrong NV) and follow their lead. It's surely not rocket science.

    I agree to a certain point,but you will never find a perfect system no matter where you look,And i dont think the Norwegian model is unique in any way.
    But i think it is important to pay the extra tax when a country is struggling,cause it always gets worse before it gets better;):D:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    I agree to a certain point,but you will never find a perfect system no matter where you look,And i dont think the Norwegian model is unique in any way.
    But i think it is important to pay the extra tax when a country is struggling,cause it always gets worse before it gets better;):D:D

    Trouble is NV .We dont have a standard European outlook on life.:(
    When the Celtic Tiger was alive and well and there was money about all those taxes could have and should have been brought in.It would proably have stopped ridicilously large mansions being built all over the place,and given some cop on to some.However the incompetant shower that ruled us knew exactly how to rule us by Bread and Circuses.Sure Bertie Aherne even said would the doomsayers goaway and kill themselves as this would last forever.Of course nothing would happen with a little crook like that in power,put there by his banking and building buddies from the Galway tent .:mad::mad:
    As Winston Churchill said "A country taxing itself out of a recession is like a man standing with both feet in a bucket trying to lift himself up by the handle".
    Sorry,I am not paying anymore taxes until I see where in my no doubt in 2013 over 2grand bill will be going in the local council.
    [The joy of owning a large Irish heritage listed building that I am obliged to keep up to spec out of my own pocket and get NO tax relif or acknowledgement from the Irish Govt !!]
    As for the septic tank charge.All this baloney about water pollution..The biggest water pollutors are the councils themselves!!!The majority of our council sewage plants have their overflows going into rivers in Ireland!:mad::mad:
    Can name THREE in my locality that are polluting the lower Shannon above Limerick.
    Its another excuse to cash in on us.Before we know it the chminey and window tax of penal times will be back in as well!
    Cant pay! Wont pay!!

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Norwayviking


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Trouble is NV .We dont have a standard European outlook on life.:(
    When the Celtic Tiger was alive and well and there was money about all those taxes could have and should have been brought in.It would proably have stopped ridicilously large mansions being built all over the place,and given some cop on to some.However the incompetant shower that ruled us knew exactly how to rule us by Bread and Circuses.Sure Bertie Aherne even said would the doomsayers goaway and kill themselves as this would last forever.Of course nothing would happen with a little crook like that in power,put there by his banking and building buddies from the Galway tent .:mad::mad:
    As Winston Churchill said "A country taxing itself out of a recession is like a man standing with both feet in a bucket trying to lift himself up by the handle".
    Sorry,I am not paying anymore taxes until I see where in my no doubt in 2013 over 2grand bill will be going in the local council.
    [The joy of owning a large Irish heritage listed building that I am obliged to keep up to spec out of my own pocket and get NO tax relif or acknowledgement from the Irish Govt !!]
    As for the septic tank charge.All this baloney about water pollution..The biggest water pollutors are the councils themselves!!!The majority of our council sewage plants have their overflows going into rivers in Ireland!:mad::mad:
    Can name THREE in my locality that are polluting the lower Shannon above Limerick.
    Its another excuse to cash in on us.Before we know it the chminey and window tax of penal times will be back in as well!
    Cant pay! Wont pay!!

    I understand Grizzly,i see things from a Norwegian perspective maybe,i am not sure i am quite Irish yet if you know what i mean;):D:D:D
    But i agree with what you say.
    Merry christmas:D:D:D
    And dont forget the good brew beside the campfire next year:D:D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    I understand Grizzly,i see thinks from a Norwegian perspective maybe,i am not sure i am quite Irish yet if you know what i mean;):D:D:D
    But i agree with what you say.
    Merry christmas:D:D:D
    And dont forget the good brew beside the campfire next year:D:D:D


    Might as well before the campfire tax comes in. Ah wait they'rre already banned by Mr. Gormless


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Godt Yule as well NV:D[sorry my Noreweign isnt up to anything].
    As my Gradtfather said when he first came over here in the 1960s in Irelands first Celtic Tiger to set up a factory in Limerick. "In Irland ist alles anders!"
    [Everything is different in Ireland!].Its pointless trying to look and understand anything here with mainland European thinking or logic.
    This can either drive you mental as a mainlander here or you just accept it and go with it.:pac:

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    eth0 wrote: »
    Might as well before the campfire tax comes in. Ah wait they'rre already banned by Mr. Gormless

    I reckon Mr Gormless on a spit over the campfire on Dec 21st/22nd 2012,should see us through for the week??How do you like your steaks done folks??:D If we can get Cowen,and its very cold,I think his blubber will keep us in rush lights for the year!! We are going to be hungry.So lets eat the Rich!!

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Norwayviking


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Godt Yule as well NV:D[sorry my Noreweign isnt up to anything].
    As my Gradtfather said when he first came over here in the 1960s in Irelands first Celtic Tiger to set up a factory in Limerick. "In Irland ist alles anders!"
    [Everything is different in Ireland!].Its pointless trying to look and understand anything here with mainland European thinking or logic.
    This can either drive you mental as a mainlander here or you just accept it and go with it.:pac:

    This can either drive you mental as a mainlander here or you just accept it and go with it


    I dont think i have a choice my missus is Irish;):D:D:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 Gocman


    This property tax is for the criminal banks who will turf families out of there homes regardless if they comply while on the other hand your caring T.Ds will be living it up on there pensions and from behind closed doors along with the euro elite they will be saying screw the Irish people and we are going to put up with this fiasco.


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