{"id":484,"date":"2012-08-27T19:57:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T19:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/property-tax-proposal-public-needs-clarity-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-08-27T19:57:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T19:57:38","slug":"property-tax-proposal-public-needs-clarity-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/property-tax-proposal-public-needs-clarity-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Tax Proposal Public Needs Clarity- Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Property Tax Proposal Public Needs Clarity- Crowe<\/h2>\n

Responding to the Government\u2019s proposed value based property tax Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe\u00a0 said that the Tax didnt appear to take account of the\u00a0owners ability to pay\u00a0 and\u00a0that\u00a0a\u00a0fairer and better\u00a0way forward\u00a0to \u00a0deal with the financial shortfall was to introduce a wealth tax.<\/p>\n

Deputy\u00a0Se\u00e1n Crowe\u00a0said:<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernment Ministers and spokespersons are saying no decision has been made in relation to\u00a0a new property tax but we know that they have indicated to the Troika that is coming down the track.<\/div>\n
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“They are\u00a0saying to the Troika one thing and telling the public something else in relation this new tax. Clarity is urgently\u00a0needed\u00a0particularly\u00a0for those hundreds of thousands of tax payers that this new tax will negatively impact on.<\/div>\n
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“The value based property tax does not appear\u00a0to\u00a0take account of personal circumstances such as ability to pay or variations in value based on location.There is currently\u00a0huge variations in the price of property between rural and city locations with huge sums involved, depending on the area.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe Government also\u00a0has not mentioned any linking of their proposed new\u00a0tax with the ability to pay, or the taxes like stamp duty \u00a0already paid by housebuyers when\u00a0they bought\u00a0a\u00a0property.<\/div>\n
“Poverty Groups have rightly highlighted the difficulty many families are already experiencing. This added burden will drive more and more\u00a0people into poverty and deeper debt.<\/div>\n
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\u201cSinn F\u00e9in believes a\u00a0wealth tax would be a\u00a0more equitable \u00a0proposal\u00a0 linking the \u00a0ability to pay with a percentage tax on all property, physical, material and financial and\u00a0over \u20ac1 million. Our wealth tax proposal\u00a0also\u00a0allows for\u00a020% write-off of the value of the principal residence. It is our\u00a0estimatation that this Tax alone could bring in\u00a0 approxmately \u20ac800 million in a full year.<\/div>\n

\u201cI am calling on the Government to abandon its plans for a property tax and seek a re-negotiation with the Troika on this\u00a0\u00a0in the Memorandum of Understanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition to this the Government must reverse the household charge, which is a flat tax that is being levied at households in anticipation of the introduction of\u00a0this property tax and water charges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Property Tax Proposal Public Needs Clarity- Crowe Responding to the Government\u2019s proposed value based property tax Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe\u00a0 said that the Tax didnt appear to take account of the\u00a0owners ability to pay\u00a0 and\u00a0that\u00a0a\u00a0fairer and better\u00a0way forward\u00a0to \u00a0deal with the financial shortfall was to introduce a wealth tax. Deputy\u00a0Se\u00e1n Crowe\u00a0said: \u201cGovernment Ministers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}