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Re:The global housing market is broken, and it’s dividing en... by endisneigh on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:05PM (#32227419)
The places where there are a lot of short term rentals are the same places where there is a lot of tourism. In effect your first two points is just killing the states own tourism industry, no?

A vacancy tax can be trivially avoided. Would there be an exception for renovation? Again, easy to game.

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Re:The global housing market is broken, and it’s dividing en... by parkingrift on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:12PM (#32227546)
Every tax is easy to game. Most people don't do it because the threat of enforcement is enough to get to 70-80%.
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Re:The global housing market is broken, and it’s dividing en... by endisneigh on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:14PM (#32227573)
About 30% of people itemize their taxes, most of which are high income, the very same people buying all of the housing.
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