Property taxes promote more stable housing market, study finds

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Taxes on property also deliver more stable source of revenue to government as they are less prone to changes in economic cycle

The Government increased the scope of the LPT to include homes built after 2013 while tinkering with some of the bands, a move that was expected to increase receipts by more than €500 million. Photograph: Bryan O’BrienProperty taxes can promote a more stable house price environment while providing a reliable source of revenue for the government, a new study has indicated.

While they are present in most OECD countries, recurrent property taxes account for differing degrees of the total revenue. Revenue from property taxes as a proportion of national income — a measure of the overall incidence of the tax — was significantly lower in Ireland than in other OECD countries, it found.

Based on a cross-country analysis, it found that recurrent property taxes were associated “with a reduction in the severity of downside risks to house prices”.

 

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Pushing pensioners into poverty

Why should Irish property owners pay property tax when asylum scammers are given properties for free?

Property owning electorate never going to allow a meaningful tax on property unfortunately.

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