NPPR – Amnesty?

[dermotneary]

Subject: Second home tax defaulters face levies of up to €7,230 - Political News | Irish & International Politics | The Irish Times - Mon, Dec 23, 2013

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/poli...faulters-face-levies-of-up-to-7-230-1.1636185

Could there be some good news in this:-

“To incentivise those liable for the charge to come to an agreement with the authorities, the amendments allow for an amnesty on late payment penalties from March to August of next year.”

 

[newirishman]

As a (compliant) taxpayer, the only point I see it as good news that the penalties are drastically increased.

 

[murphaph]

As a (compliant) taxpayer, the only point I see it as good news that the penalties are drastically increased.

Why not make all fines, penalties etc equally draconian? How about €1000 parking fines? After all, you know if you park illegally you stand to be fined, so why not €1000 to "properly" deter dangerous/inconsiderate/illegal parking?

The NPPR penalties are a strange exception. Standard Revenue penalties for those who have failed to pay say some due income tax are much much smaller than the NPPR penalty. Why so?

There should be a penalty for failure to pay the NPPR or nobody would pay it but it's the disproportionately high level of that penalty that is just unfair.

 

[Bronte]

Could there be some good news in this:-

“To incentivise those liable for the charge to come to an agreement with the authorities, the amendments allow for an amnesty on late payment penalties from March to August of next year.”

I don't think the people liable for this will see it as good news. It's the most draconian penalty of any tax.

Only good news is that there is going to be some kind of amnesty for those who are under severe financial stress.

 

[Knuttell]

I don't think the people liable for this will see it as good news. It's the most draconian penalty of any tax.

Utterly unfair in the way the penalties accrue,they should remove that element of it and allow people to pay it with a small penalty of €100 for every year unpaid.

If wonga did property taxes...this would be it.

 

[shesells]

Personally I'm against amnesties that benefit those who did not live up to their legal obligation to pay the tax. We mistakenly skipped a year (having paid several years before and after) and did pay a large penalty, because it was our fault. The idea of people who didn't pay getting off without a penalty really irritates me. We suffered to pay the money due but I know plenty of landlords (accidental and commercial) who knowingly refused to pay the NPPR charge. Why should they get an easier ride than we did?