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Roger_007

sudzs wrote: »

I detest Duffy for that. :mad:

It was disgraceful.

SEPT 23 1989

crying himself off the line

nasty Duffy very nasty

Sittingpretty

sudzs wrote: »

I detest Duffy for that. :mad:

Seconded. Making an elderly man cry live on air. He must be so proud.

ButtersSuki

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ButtersSuki

That was classic Joe, exploiting a vulnerable caller for his own entertainment. He is a right C word.

Hamilcar

forgot my homework excuse..............

Lapin

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Do you honestly believe EACH AND EVERY ONE of these callers this week heard NOTHING about this before Monday of this week, despite the blanket coverage at the time it was launched many years ago, ads on radio and in the press every year since and featured on radio programs like this many times over the years?

I certainly believe the callers who lived abroad. When this was first introduced it was called a holiday home tax. People can be forgiven for assuming it didn't apply to them as their properties back home are principal residences.

Not every Irish person living abroad tunes into RTÉ everyday or reads Irish newspapers. I certainly didn't. People keep in touch with whats going on at home in their own communities and family and friends. I don't ever recall discussing governmental fiscal policy down the phone with my mother during one of my sporadic phonecalls home.

The councils should have been more active in collecting this tax over the last few years. Tracking people down and hitting them with a extortionate penalties a week before the closing date after for or five years without contact is taking the piss big time. There can be no disputing that.

Hamilcar

Hold on a minute. all these guys living abroad complaining about the NPPR.
If their tenants in Ireland were a day late paying the rent, they'd be on to the tenant before you could say boo!

ednwireland

so councils are admitting that they dont know who lives in their counties :rolleyes:

pc7

Finding myself agreeing with Joe, WTF!!!! is going on. The fines are absolutely disgraceful, it is shocking stuff.

ButtersSuki

Lapin wrote: »

I certainly believe the callers who lived abroad. When this was first introduced it was called a holiday home tax. People can be forgiven for assuming it didn't apply to them as their properties back home are principal residences.

Not every Irish person living abroad tunes into RTÉ everyday or reads Irish newspapers. I certainly didn't. People keep in touch with whats going on at home in their own communities and family and friends. I don't ever recall discussing governmental fiscal policy down the phone with my mother during one of my sporadic phonecalls home.

The councils should have been more active in collecting this tax over the last few years. Tracking people down and hitting them with a extortionate penalties a week before the closing date after for or five years without contact is taking the piss big time. There can be no disputing that.

And what about the callers/chancers from Dubalin, Donegal, Tipperary etc. who claim to have never heard of it? Are you buying that?

I'm not sure I agree with your points though. If these foreign residents have rented property here, they are liable toy make a return on that to revenue each year. If they do that, they would have heard of the NPPR if they bothered to read their return. I'm sorry, but I lived abroad too and I was aware of changes to the taxation system in Ireland because I read the papers online - not every day mind you but enough to hear of things like this.

Hamilcar

The fines may be punitive........ but they work..................
Do you think anyone would paying up at all if there were no penalties

vicwatson

Hamilcar wrote: »

Marie was so fantastic she spent an hour on this show instead of doing the job she was paid for

Had to laugh at that. whining about how busy they are yet had time to talk to Fluffy Duffy.

Didn't call in on her lunch break oh no.

Then lambasts the law society for essentially giving them more work through applications for evidence that the nppr had been paid - this was infact a government measure. Solicitors could do without the hassle too.

As for Marie and her we have to go look up records etc !! makes me laugh - 1.what do you get paid for and 2. surely a name, address and pps number is enough for them to print off a
standard run of the mill letter. Should take a couple of minutes max.

Of course Duffy's bugbear with The Law Society got in the way of the facts.

Champagne Socialist Duffy.

Hamilcar

Digital hearing ad

How appropriate for the lads who never heard of the NPPR

Harry Angstrom

This sounds like a rundown of the charts. Where's Larry Gogan?

Hamilcar

Number 26 cos Marie was busy chatting to Joe

ButtersSuki

"Well done! Well done!"

…..for waiting on the phone. Joe sets the bar extraordinarily high alright...

Roger_007

It must have been Maria who was supposed to be dealing with her?

ButtersSuki

Fair play to this daughter. She obviously listened to the mammy earlier in the week ho paid for her son so she's hoping for the same!

bottlebrush

All the same I can't fault people who only own one property for believing they didn't have to pay
a second home charge

CarrickMcJoe

LOL, some genius came up with that scheme. Ah sure when they ring up, say they are no. 27 on the list.

signostic

Charlotte from Clontarf with a daughter in Dooboy............Bingo

ButtersSuki

Not Dubalin FM but Clontarf FM now. Alex in the Post Office must be thrilled with the mention.

sudzs

Joe being all quaint naming the person in the Clontarf post office.... a true man of de peeble. :rolleyes:

Harry Angstrom

Charlotte wants to strip off

bottlebrush

Mother phones daughter "are you sitting down"....

ButtersSuki

Please don't strip off Charlotte. And don't be putting ideas in Duffy's head.

Hamilcar

No missus don't strip off.....................I'll pay your NPPR if you keep your clothes on

Roger_007

signostic wrote: »

Charlotte from Clontarf with a daughter in Dooboy............Bingo

Doesn't she sound like the stereotypical Irish Mammy?

djemba djemba

What would stripping off achieve?