More than 85% of households have not paid the household charge with just over two and a half weeks to go before the deadline. The group responsible for collecting the payments said yesterday it is confident more people will pay closer to the March 31st deadline. However, those opposed to the charge say it shows [...]
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Posted in Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News
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Also tagged Billy Hawkes, Data Protection Commissioner, Department of Social Protection, household charge, Mandate, property tax, Revenue Commissioners, Sunday Times, utility bills, €100
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The government is reported to be considering the possibility of using utility bills to track down the 1.2 million homeowners who have not yet paid the €100 household charge. With the deadline for payment of March 31st looming ever larger, just under 400,000 people have registered for the controversial payment – which will be replaced [...]
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Posted in Mortgages & Money, Property News, The Investor
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Also tagged BT2, Chief Executive, Dublin City Centre, Grafton Street, IPUT, Irish Property Unit Trust, Irish Times, Niall Gaffney, property investments, rental income
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The ESB Pension Fund has transferred ownership of €70 million worth of investment properties to IPUT (Irish Property Unit Trust), according to a report in today’s Irish Times. Under the new arrangement the pension fund will become one of the major stakeholders in the trust, which manages property investments for a range of pension funds [...]
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Around 130,000 homeowners are in arrears on their ESB bills, new data has revealed. A further 310,000 cash-strapped families have agreed to payment plans in order to ensure the electricity to their homes is left on. The news comes after Electric Ireland revealed they have appointed a British debt-collection firm to chase down unpaid bills. [...]
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The level of new house completion fell to pre-1970 historic lows in 2011, according to official figures and could fall even further this year, according to the latest AIB House Market Bulletin. The latest data from the Department of Environment show that there were just 10,480 housing units completed in 2011, a fall of 28% [...]
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Posted in Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News
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Also tagged Alan Shatter, Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes, Clare Daly, Department of the Environment, household charge, Joan Collins, Joe Higgins, John Lyons, Mick Wallace, Minister for Justice, Paul Murphy, property tax, Richard Boyd Barrett, Ruth Coppinger, Seamus Healy, Ted Tynan, Thomas Pringle, €100
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More than 30,000 properties have now been registered for the new household charge, since it came into force on January 1. The figures, released by the Department of the Environment, mean that more than €3 million has been raised from the controversial charge so far. News of the 30,000 subscriptions to the charge came as [...]
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The government is reportedly considering chasing down homeowners who avoid paying the new €100 household charge by tracking information from the Revenue Commissioners and the ESB. Amid a number of calls from opposition TDs for the 1.6 million homeowners affected by the charge to boycott it, the government showed how determined they are to try [...]
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