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    ‘People crying out for homes’ – Greens furious over Fianna Fáil plans to shelve tax on land hoarding
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    ‘People crying out for homes’ – Greens furious over Fianna Fáil plans to shelve tax on land hoarding


    ‘People crying out for homes’ – Greens furious over Fianna Fáil plans to shelve tax on land hoarding

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/people-crying-out-for-homes-greens-furious-over-fianna-fail-plans-to-shelve-tax-on-land-hoarding/a1333568403.html

    Posted by nonlabrab

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    10 Comments

    1. funpubquiz on

      Pull down the government over it if you are serious. You will be rewarded and FF/FG will lose votes. It will also make housing the undisputed number one issue of the election.

    3. SteveK27982 on

      FF are trying to placate the farmers before they protest again even if they’re genuinely hoarding the land too

    4. JONFER--- on

      And they will do absolutely fucking nothing about it!

      They are just putting on a show for the cameras and making noise to save face. Before any decision to pull down the government could be approved by members and election would already have been called.

    5. VeraStrange on

      If you vote the same people in decade after decade how can you expect change. This is what the majority of the people of Ireland want.

    6. SpyderDM on

      Why are farmers using residentially zoned land for farming in the first place? This alone should be illegal, is this not the case? It seems like we are trying to protect a group that is already in violation of the law and to make sure that they can continue to violate the law without repercussion? Am I missing something here?

    7. Soectronis on

      Well they’ve always shown their unwavering support for landlords, property speculators and land owners.

    8. Brine-O-Driscoll on

      Think hoarding homes (either left derelict or bought to rent) is a bigger issue than hoarding land atm.

      Know lots of people who can’t get planning to build on the land they have, so are forced to ‘hoard’ it too.

    9. cruciferae on

      If the land has been zoned residential, shouldn’t farmers have to pay the tax (since they are presumably benefiting from higher land value)? By zoning it as residential, the government has essentially decided that the land’s best and highest use is housing, so seems reasonable to tax use that is inconsistent with that purpose. If the land shouldn’t be zoned as residential at all, since it’s a farm, that seems like a different issue altogether.