Renting house below market rate/ staying one weekend a month? Register RTB

Sarenco said:
Your question boils down to whether the rent paying occupants will be mere licensees (aka lodgers) or tenants. If the house is not your primary residence, any rent paying occupants cannot be lodgers - so they must be tenants!
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I would focus less on the semantics.

You need to figure out how any arrangement will be viewed by the RTB and Revenue.

Make your housing and financial plans on the basis of compliance with the rules, and there is plenty of advice up this thread.
 
Why would anybody bring a case they have no hope of winning?
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I can't figure out what you mean here?

If any such case was to be brought to RTB/ court, then it would, I imagine, be started by either a tenant or perhaps an agency (e.g. Threshold) on their behalf?

My question was if you ( or anyone reading this thread) knew of actual legal / RTB cases where it was established that a house sharing arrangement was in fact a tenancy?
 
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If it is your house and you want to stay in it rather than a hotel and you spend each summer here then why the concern about whether you can rent it out at a later date at the market rate?
I'm no expert in this area but I would put a lot of value on Sarenco's posts generally and in these patters in particular. I think you'd do well to do the same.
 
Remember the you have to prove that you don't owe tax, Revenue don't have to prove that you do.
 
Thirsty said:
My question was if you ( or anyone reading this thread) knew of actual legal / RTB cases where it was established that a house sharing arrangement was in fact a tenancy?
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What's proposed here isn't a house share.

I can't share a house with somebody in Dublin if I live in London.

There is no case on the point because no sane person would try to argue otherwise.
 
@Purple - it wasn't tax I was referring to. I was asking if anyone had any actual cases / determinations / documentation where the RTB have ruled that a house share was in fact a tenancy?
 
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