TUC calls for £5bn tax on empty homes

carolt

Sounds sensible to me.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/nov/14/tax-empty-homes-tuc

Emy1501

i do not know why council tax is not charged on empty second homes. I also do not know why CGT has been reduced on people owning second homes either.

carolt

I think it may have something to do with all MPs being paid (until v recently) to own two homes, possibly? :rolleyes:

amcluesent

Just another example of the socialist tribal hatred of private-property ownership. Their goal is everyone to be a client of the state, just like like millions they've hooked on benefits.

carolt

(Can one person (your single socialist) be a tribe?)

As opposed to the capitalists' tribal desire to ensure everyone else (ie other human beings) uses their labour ie hard work, to make profit for them alone? To view others only through little pound signs?

Posts like yours do make socialism seem tremendously attractive, actually.

leveller2911

Emy1501 wrote: »

i do not know why council tax is not charged on empty second homes. I also do not know why CGT has been reduced on people owning second homes either.

Thats a good point,given the fact that Business Rates are still payable on empty shops and Industrial units.Where I have my workshop the owner of the Industrial estate down the road is considering taking off the roofs of his empty units as the rates are killing him.......

leveller2911

amcluesent wrote: »

Just another example of the socialist's tribal hatred of private-property ownership. Their goal is everyone to be a client of the state, just like like millions they've hooked on benefits.

I refer the honourable gentleman/lady to the answer I gave some moments ago...........(regarding business rates):D

amcluesent

>Posts like yours do make socialism seem tremendously attractive, actually.<

One to discuss with those living in the USSR under Stalin I think...

sabretoothtigger

They do this in america. It would work to depress house prices and some houses sell there for under 1000


I dont agree because the house should cost the local authority nothing while it remains empty so taxing with no linked cost would be socialist. Theres more of a case to charge a water bill for disposal of rain water from the land

lostinrates

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

I dont agree because the house should cost the local authority nothing while it remains empty so taxing with no linked cost would be socialist. Theres more of a case to charge a water bill for disposal of rain water from the land

Arguanbly the house costs, for example, in policing, so that it is not broken in to for theft or by squatters. A lot of emty houses could possibly add to this risk. Othe rcommunity costs, e.g. lighting, are still being accrued by the eighbours and the empty house bowing out I suppose ups the bill for each of the other payers.

carolt

amcluesent wrote: »

>Posts like yours do make socialism seem tremendously attractive, actually.<

One to discuss with those living in the USSR under Stalin I think...

Stalin did not = socialism.

Try discussing it with homeless pensioners in Russia now, whose security in old-age was wiped away by the fall of Communism. Or - shock horror! actually go to Russia, now, and tell us how great it is that little old ladies there have to sweep the streets in all weathers, because otherwise they'd starve. Because there is no welfare state, now, with the advent of Glorious Capitalism.

Great for those who like cleaner streets. Great for the little old ladies? Hmmm.