The Taoiseach has confirmed the Government will allow for some hard-pressed householders not to pay the property tax. Those who bought homes that are affected by pyrite, properties owned by charities and those who are permanently incapacitated will not have to pay the tax when it is introduced in July The Coalition is also allowing [...]
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Posted in General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News
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Also tagged assessment, Cabinet, estimates, Michael Noonan, national average house price, newspaper, payment, property, property tax, reports
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Latest estimates are putting the average property tax facing householders next year at around €315. According to newspaper reports this morning, the payment will range between €200 and €400 for most people, depending on the value of their property. Michael Noonan will be finalising details of the property tax in the coming days, but according [...]
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Posted in General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News
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Also tagged Bord Gais, Culture and the Gaeltacht, damaged, Irish Water, John Mullins, Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment, leaking, liable, metered, pipes, stopcock, supplies, Transport, utility, water, water pipes
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Householders could have to pay for leaking or damaged water pipes found on their property by the new utility company that the Government is set to establish next year, an Oireachtas committee heard recently. John Mullins, chief executive of Bord Gáis, which has taken responsibility for setting up Irish Water, said yesterday that once supplies [...]
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Posted in General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News
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Also tagged Chief Executive, error, household charge, LGMA, Local Government Management Agency, Morning Ireland, non-payment, Paul McSweeney, penalty, RTÉ, warning letters
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Thousands of householders who have paid the household charge have received warning letters on non-payment in error. The chief executive of the Local Government Management Agency urged people who have received such letters to make contact with the agency. Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Paul McSweeney said if householders do not notify the agency, they [...]
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Posted in General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News
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Also tagged homeowners, household charge, penalties, property tax, Revenue Commissioners, tax, tax clearance certificate, €100
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The Revenue Commissioners are set to be given new powers to chase down the 600,000 homeowners who have yet to pay the household charge. Among the measures they will potentially use to get people to pay will be to deny householders tax clearance certificates. Penalties for failing to pay the new property tax will also [...]
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Also tagged anti-household charge campaign, austerity, bondholders, campaign, court summons, Dáil, Deputy, developers, household charge, Socialist, Socialist Party, travel allowance
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Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins is defending the use of a Dáil travel allowance to fund his role in the anti-household charge campaign. Deputy Higgins said it is entirely justifiable for TDs to use their expenses to travel the country campaigning against the tax. “I believe that the allowance that is facilitated to me as [...]
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Posted in General, Mortgages & Money
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Also tagged AIB, Bank of Ireland, banks, Central Bank, credit card, insurance, Mortgage, payment protection insurance, personal loans, policies, refunds, regulator
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Thousands of householders are expected to receive refunds on their payment protection insurance after the Central Bank ordered seven companies to conduct a review of their books to weed out mis-sold policies. The seven firms, mainly banks, may now face fines from the regulator for selling the insurance to people who were excluded from making [...]
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Posted in General, Mortgages & Money
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Also tagged consumer index study, consumers, discretionary income, ECB, economy, European Central Bank, Fergal O'Brien, homeowners, IBEC, IBEC chief economist, income, interest rates, Irish Business and Employers Confederation, Irish Consumer Monitor, Mortgage, mortgage interest rates, report
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Homeowners will be €700 better off each year thanks to reductions in mortgage interest rates, a new report has revealed. Reduced mortgage interest rates are expected to result in a 2.4% rise in the amount of discretionary income householders have by the end of 2012. However, the consumer index study from the Irish Business and [...]
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More than 920,000 householders have registered for the €100 household charge, according to the latest figures. The Local Government Management Agency said yesterday that 921,568 properties had been registered to date. The figure included some 206,000 postal registrations, which were yet to be processed. The latest figures suggest €92 million has been collected to date, [...]
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Also tagged 2014, Bord Gais, construction, deadline, Environment Minister, European Union, household water supplies, Irish Water, jobs, leaky pipes, legislation, metered network, meters, National Pension Reserve Fund, network, OECD, phil hogan, plumbing, private sector, regulator, state assets, state ownership, utility company, water metering programme
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The new utility company being set up to oversee household water supplies and charges will not be sold off to the private sector, Environment Minister Phil Hogan has insisted. Irish Water, which will operate under Bord Gáis, will be tasked with installing and running a metered network by the end of 2014. The minister insisted [...]
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Revenue has developed an interactive online property tax valuation guide, available here . The gu...
The SCS, the largest construction and property industry body in the country, publishes the guide ...
