Tag: property tax
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Property prices in Ireland pre and post transparency
In September 2012 the Irish Government finally published a reasonably comprehensive register of residential home sales. We now have 6 m data on property prices after this. While this chart here, which shows the cumulative 6m change pre and post publication is grossly unscientific, there does seem to be some effect. This cant be all…
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Fifty Shades of Property Tax Grey (well, brown)
So the revenue have produced a heatmap of the country, at DED level, to give you a guide as to the property tax you will pay. Or, not. Its fifty shades of brown …well, 7 anyhow. Take a look at Kerry and Kildare (yes, yes, I have two houses…one in Kildare where I live the…
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Can we have a win-win property tax ?
this is an extended and linked version of a column published in the irish examiner. There are many economic reasons to tax property, including household land or capital value. There is also the fact that taxing things that cant easily move is easier than those that do, and despite the recent collapse in the economy,…