‘You’re forcing farmers who are working hard off their own land’ — meet the North Dublin vegetable growers forced to pay up to €60k in tax, or sell their farms
by PoppedCork
‘You’re forcing farmers who are working hard off their own land’ — meet the North Dublin vegetable growers forced to pay up to €60k in tax, or sell their farms
by PoppedCork
13 comments
Has it now come down to food or housing?
So we can’t do a vacant land tax or a derelict land tax, but farmers who are actively farming their land are being taxed on the value of that land?
Absolutely insane.
Hold on a second, can they not apply to have the land zoned for agricultural only? Or is this article bs and they want to hold onto the option to sell for houses.
The biggest welfare sponges in the country complaining again?
Sell up
Farming land zoned for development is what developers do to avoid paying any vacant land taxes. If you give them an exemption despite being on zoned land the whole system fails.
Can someone explain why people in the comments are outraged? This is exactly how it should be.
“And that seems to be across the board in a lot of little towns: they put the houses in but the infrastructure is not there to be able to handle it.”
Almost as if there’s no planning,
Love reading the comments on here when farmers are brought up. If half the shit that gets said about farmers got said about travellers in any other thread and they would be locked.
I assume the lads who do the bitching never take pride in Irish food quality or post pictures of their Guinness’.
Forcing farmers to sell land – to see little 3 bed houses be built, which will in turn lead to more sprawl, is a disastrous policy. Land around Rush is one of the few places we grow vegatables in Ireland.
God forbid we would build some decent density in the town and city centers.
Madness, absolute madness, state tyranny.
I can see both sides of the argument, I am of the opinion that if a person owns land. They should be able to do what ever the fork they want with it.
I read some of the comments before I created my own and some of the opinions of the general theme of
“as a society…. We have chosen….” Et cetera.
Will you go please go fork yourselves! These people didn’t create the housing crisis. It was poor planning and border controls by government that did. And it is not your asset, it belongs to someone else.
How anyone thinks that and able to use tax as a weapon on private individuals to control their assets is a good thing is beyond me.
The article makes a very good point about food security. BR far too dependent on some types of imports in this case food which is a staple. To all of the environmentally concerned. Think of the additional environmental damage that will be done in transporting additional goods in from overseas. This applies to all commodities besides food.
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If the local authorities want to make him a breathtaking offer of say land and housing et cetera somewhere else in exchange for his, fair enough. If he says no. However, that should be the end of it.
The real joke is when they get rejected for planning permission but still have to pay the residential zone tax!