Development levies to be waived to speed up house building

23 comments
  1. Long overdue. Would like to see some additional aggressive cuts to close the viability gap.

    Cost of capital through the roof right now ireland, perhaps some state lending scheme for developers?

    Eliminating all tax on housing development?

    No doubt unpopular with Irish electorate, but all of these premiums are passed straight to the consumer so it would be very sensible policy

  2. Has any subsidy to developers ever succeeded in lowering the price of new builds?

    (If your answer involves the appearance of unexpected costs between announcement of subsidy and finished price …. Would you like to buy a bridge?)

  3. Are we at the scraping the barrel stage of dumbass ideas we are going to try to avoid the state stepping in to build its own housing like it used to do?

    Im sure there is quite a few bs ideas in the neoliberal playbook.

    And no house prices wont come down because of this. Developers will just pocket pocket more profit.

  4. Hopefully this includes the tax charged for a self build. Meath County Council, for example, charge €7500 to commence a one off house

  5. So now they’re subsidising builds but not getting anything back and just hoping the savings get passed to the consumer? Wat

  6. When I saw Apple had paid 8 billion in taxes I knew that FF/FG would try and buy the next election using the funds. This is the start of it.

  7. This is actually a reasonable proposal in my opinion. I would prefer to be able to claim the vat back on building when it’s my first home like in Northern Ireland.

  8. Some absolutely brutal takes here.

    It now costs more to build a home than buyers can afford to pay. So builders can’t build and have been slowing down building commencements. That’s why costs need to fall.

    It’s not a conspiracy, it’s a sensible thing to do.

    Also sigh at the gobshites thinking we should be the only country in Europe with a public house building mega-corporation. (a) it would take a decade under any government to build up something like that, (b) the staff don’t exist, and (c) it would almost certainly be illegal under EU competition laws.

  9. This basically fks the local councils as it has just wiped out a large portion of their annual budget with no indication it will be replaced by the govt

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