30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s housing crisis

Re:30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s h... by scotty79 on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:27AM (#18568319)

Income tax is not the only tax. There's tax on fuel, on tobacco. You tax cheap harmful things to make them more expensive to discourage them. Hoarding property is harmful and should be discouraged.

As a side note I think income tax should be 0. VAT as the main source of income seems way more just to me. Plus various taxes to make the environmental cost of activity known to the market (like CO2 tax, fuel tax) or tax on harmful things (like tobacco) to discourage them.

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Re:30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s h... by ergo14 on Friday November 30, 2018 @08:42AM (#18569003)

So people like me would pay no VAT on invoices because I export services (so they are reverse-charge in EU). I would only pay VAT on goods that I buy personally. I think the matter is more complex.

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