Regierung führt neue Steuer auf verlassenes Eigentum ein
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0614/1578297-derelict-property-legislation/
Von qwerty_1965
Regierung führt neue Steuer auf verlassenes Eigentum ein
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0614/1578297-derelict-property-legislation/
Von qwerty_1965
26 Kommentare
Good stuff. It’s pretty clear most councils haven’t been bothered collecting the current tax so I’m glad to hear revenue are taking it over.
Youghals gonna be hit very heavily, the main streets dilapidated as fuck
Theres an empty house near me that has been served with a seizure notice for December 2025 and another for March 2026. Nothing has been done since.
Good. I hope Dunnes Stores gets hit massively for the units in Dún Laoghaire that have been rotting for decades.
The RTÉ piece just proves what’s been obvious for years county councils have completely failed to enforce derelict property laws. Buildings are collapsing all over the country while councils can’t even keep a proper register, never mind issue levies. At this stage, handing enforcement to Revenue is the only way anything will actually happen, and hopefully it means property owners finally have nowhere left to hide.
A shameful dereliction of duty by the councils. One would argue why have councillors at all if they aren’t bothered to do their jobs
Been saying to do that fir 10 years now. Whybarr they always so slow to come up with ideas that would actually work?
Hopeful, but lets see some proper enforcement before I celebrate a good move just yet.
Use it or lose it, cunts.
Good. There’s a stretch of George’s St, Dun Laoghaire where Dunnes Stores is. I’m sure some of it is being used for storage but imagine the life it would bring back to Dun Laoghaire if it could be brought into use for housing.
The building Dunnes is in was the Avenue Hotel. So there’s probably high ceilings and period features.
Tralee is about to get hit hard so seeing as Kerry County Council couldn’t be bothered about all the derelict properties around the place.
Cool doesn’t matter if they don’t enforce it though
And when no one seems to be able to find out who actually owns the house?
Government are great for introducing things but quite terrible on the enforcement side of things.
Can citizens add to the dereliction list held by the local authority?
Where I’m from there’s considerable levels of dereliction
This is absolutely needed in Drogheda. West street is about to fall on your head.
Never mind a tax it should be a hefty fine first and then next time the property goes straight to auction and out of negligent owners hands.
Ten years too late
We should introduce a data center tax
Maybe collect the old one?
An incredible step forward taken about a decade too late
Clonmel needs it
There’s a row of houses directly across from the Coombe that are just housing pigeons and junkies. One of the biggest maternity hospitals in the country and directly opposite is a dilapidating row of perfectly good potential triaging or commercial units. Fuck even temporary housing for at risk pregnancies would be the solution. Bring in the derelict property tax and make it increase by 10% of the current property value every year
Question will be how enforceable it will be when you have a property you want to tear down and can’t get a permit for building something economic.
“DERELICT” is not the same legal definition as “UNOCCUPIED” so very few will actually have to pay 7% as the majority will do basic work to get the property classed as unoccupied which is only 0.825% which creates zero incentive to bring it to market as land value appreciation far outweighs this. Most unoccupied/derelict homes in Ireland are structurally sound. Also why Center it on cities when all of rural Ireland is under the same insane price pressure and around 14% (according to AI) of “derelict” properties are in Mayo for example.
This is simply a piece of legislation to make the public believe something is being done when it will not have any impact on the fundamental problems.
There’s a few loopholes around this, there’s land on Benburb street derelict for decades, to get around this they’ve put some outdoor gym equipment on it and some sports equipment and a small sign saying call this number to use it, but no one ever does. On paper it’s not derelict, but in reality its empty unused land