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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...y-unacceptable
Names emerged in a list detailing the council tax information of the vacant homes and their 1,197 owners. This appeared to have been sent accidentally by the council to multiple recipients, including the Guardian.
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Erm I am confused as to why anyone thinks that because someone has bought a house and it is empty that someone else who has not bought the house has any right to question that.
We are not in a socialist/communist state and so property is not theft.Comment
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Originally posted by original PM View PostErm I am confused as to why anyone thinks that because someone has bought a house and it is empty that someone else who has not bought the house has any right to question that.
We are not in a socialist/communist state and so property is not theft.
Shouldn't thereThe Chunt of Chunts.Comment
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Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View PostAnd obviously there should have been massive taxes collected when exchange of ownership took place.
Shouldn't there
But it is not acceptable to say 'oh that guy has something I want and he is not using it so i have a right to have it'Comment
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Originally posted by original PM View PostLook if proper process has not been followed when these things were bought that is an issue that needs to be addressed.
But it is not acceptable to say 'oh that guy has something I want and he is not using it so i have a right to have it'
The government was happy to collect what it could from the sales stamp duty wise.
Obviously in a lot of cases they didn't.The Chunt of Chunts.Comment
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Originally posted by original PM View PostErm I am confused as to why anyone thinks that because someone has bought a house and it is empty that someone else who has not bought the house has any right to question that.
We are not in a socialist/communist state and so property is not theft.
This outrage can be compared to Londoners buying holiday homes in the West Country and Norfolk, were they are empty for 40-46 weeks of the year and the local working people struggling to rent homes in the locality let alone afford to buy them.Last edited by SueEllen; 2 August 2017, 10:52."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View Posthttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...y-unacceptable
Names emerged in a list detailing the council tax information of the vacant homes and their 1,197 owners. This appeared to have been sent accidentally by the council to multiple recipients, including the Guardian.
HMRC then goes after some of the individuals and being completely useless gets a few hundred pounds back, while the taxman in Spain/France/[put in country of your choice] gets a few hundred thousand to a million back."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Just a thought.
If you were this guy:
Among the empty properties is the former Brompton Road tube station building, vacant since it was bought for £53m by the Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash in 2014. He is fighting extradition to the US."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Erm I am confused as to why anyone thinks that because someone has bought a house and it is empty that someone else who has not bought the house has any right to question that.
We are not in a socialist/communist state and so property is not theft.bloggoth
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