Ghandee wrote: » If their rents collected monthly, (like my mortgage is) that equates to €12-€24 per year
Ghandee wrote: » I spent more than that on a round of drink on Sunday evening.
DoesNotCompute wrote: » So you'd have no problem paying the HHC, then.
Ghandee wrote: » Expected mass non-compliance. Many hard working tax paying citizens completely oblivious to whatever the rate will be and who will be in charge of collection.Just on the HHC, i think we can all agree now, with just over 3 weeks until its phased out, it was not a success. It barely had a 50% compliance rate when landlords were excluded. I think the property tax will be an even bigger failure.
DoesNotCompute wrote: » Noonan said that the exemptions will be broadly in line with the exemptions of the HHC (i.e. those in receipt of Mortgage Interest Supplement and those in unfinished housing estates). How exactly are those exemptions targetted at the rich???
paddy147 wrote: » So a person with a well paid job in an unfinished estate gets a free pass...yet someone on social wellfare who lost their job and cant get a job,has mortgage problems and in negative equaity gets fcuk all????? Thats fair?????????
donalg1 wrote: » Unvouched expenses cut, another reason the anti side claimed they wouldnt pay was the lads at the top need to cut out the expenses and what not.
Hijpo wrote: » Anything else?
DoesNotCompute wrote: » Also 10% reduction in Leader's Allowances, 10% less in the Parliamentary Standard Allowance (whatever that is), and the overall fund for expenses will be reduced. Severence pay to be abolished for current and future deputies. Overall pretty fair budget to be honest. Everyone asked to contribute a little.
northknife wrote: » Its only proposed legislation, might take over 20 years to legislate for, same as the x-case. Until it is the law they can stick it up their arses
dvpower wrote: » Only 0.18% - that's much less than anyone projected here.
robbie7730 wrote: » I suggested it might be an average of €200 myself when introduced. I think had everyone registered, it possibly would have been higher.
DoesNotCompute wrote: » Overall pretty fair budget to be honest. Everyone asked to contribute a little.
robbie7730 wrote: » A little for some, will be far more painful than a lot for others. It seems a simple concept, but obviously not for some.
dvpower wrote: » This is the anti tax brigade in retreat."We did it lads. We forced them down to 0.18%. A glorious victory" :pac:
robbie7730 wrote: » No victory there. I would have preferred them to put it at 1.5% straight away myself. Much like yourself would have, id imagine.
DoesNotCompute wrote: » Indeed. I'm frankly amazed you can't grasp it. :pac:
loggedoff wrote: » That really would have been on the edge of insanity!
tayto lover wrote: » Especially women and children, the sick, pregnant and old BUT not the rich friends of the Govt ministers.
donalg1 wrote: » You can almost guarantee the compliance rate will get an awful lot higher once the Revenue start going after people.
darkhorse wrote: » You mention the legal word, but surely it could'nt have been legal how the last minister for finance was more or less threatened by the head of the ECB to take a bailout:Trichet says letters to Lenihan should not be published - Irish ...
K-9 wrote: » Ah yeah, poor ould FF bullied into taking a bailout that was inevitable anyway. The country was going to run out of cash in a few months anyway despite FF protestations, the ECB made them face up to reality.
