Public Meeting in Ballinteer on Property Tax

dublin | bin tax / household tax / water tax | event notice Sunday March 17, 2013 23:21 by CAHWT

This meeting will provide an opportunity for residents to discuss the Property Tax, to get information on the details of this unjust tax, and the boycott.

Speaker Cllr. Bríd SMith.

This meeting will take place in Ballinteer Community School and begins at 8pm.

Resist The Property Tax
Can you afford another annual bill of over €400??

In the coming weeks the Revenue Commissioners will write to all households with a bill for the new Property Tax. This tax has been set at 0.18% of the value of the home up to €1 million, after which a rate of 0.25% applies. This mean that if your home is worth €250,000 you will be expected to pay €405, for a €300,000 home, €495 and so on.

This tax is grossly unfair. It takes no account of the ability to pay. So a pensioner living in a house worth €500,000 with an income of €12,000 will still be expected to pay €855 every year! Yet again, the burden falls on ordinary people while the richest 36,000 woho own wealth of approx. €130 bullion remain virtually untouched. It should be called The Bank Bail Out Tax. Coming after years of austerity budgets and wage cuts, this is a tax that huge numbers of people simply cannot afford to pay.

Fight The Property Tax. You can't afford not to.

We do not have to accept this. The government can be beaten. While the Revenue Commissioners have been given draconian powers to enforce it -including the ability to deduct it directly from wages and social welfare -a massive campaign of people power can force the government to scrap their plans.

Boycott this tax and help build a campaign of protest and civil disobedience that will create a political crisis for governement. We need our unions to act and support workers who refuse to co-operate with the implementation of this unjust tax.

Attention All Council Tenants
Do you know that the government and the council want to charge council tenants for The Property Tax

When the Property Tax was announced in December Minister Phil Hogan said that councils would be charged the tax for all the houses they own.

The full details of how much this will be and how it will be charged have yet to be revealed but it seems absolutely clear that the council will try to push this hefty bill from the Department onto their tenants.

This makes a mockery of the idea that the tax is a Property Tax -if it is now going to be lumped onto council tenants who do not own their property. It also makes a mockery out of the idea that this is a tax to help secure funding for local services. How can you say you are in favour of a solid revenue stream for local services and then send the council a hefy bill -which could be as much as three quarters of a million in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown

This tax should be called what is is -a Bank Bail Out Tax and we need to resist this tax in every way possible.

A Campaign is being built across the country. Get involved by coming to the meeting advertised above. This is your chance to question your local TDs directly on this issue. The meeting will plan a campaign of local and rational protests. Come along, join in the discussion and help the Campaign

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