{"id":150026,"date":"2025-04-01T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/and-the-award-for-zero-self-awareness-goes-to-second-home-owners-raging-about-higher-taxes-gaby-hinsliff\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T01:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:43:27","slug":"and-the-award-for-zero-self-awareness-goes-to-second-home-owners-raging-about-higher-taxes-gaby-hinsliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/and-the-award-for-zero-self-awareness-goes-to-second-home-owners-raging-about-higher-taxes-gaby-hinsliff\/","title":{"rendered":"And the award for zero self-awareness goes to second-home owners raging about higher taxes | Gaby Hinsliff"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhy the anger? Doubling council tax on holiday homes in England is a sensible, revenue-raising policy for communities in serious needShould you have the world\u2019s tiniest violin to hand, prepare to play it. This week, English councils gain the power to double council tax on second homes, and the holiday-cottage-owning classes are fuming. \u201cNothing but a racket,\u201d thundered the Daily Telegraph, dismissing a supposedly \u201cvindictive\u201d raid on weekenders that was (gasp) \u201csocialist\u201d to boot.Its Sunday sister paper further tugged on readers\u2019 heartstrings with tales of homeowners who had inherited a second place somewhere lovely from their parents, and bridled at being asked to pay a few thousand pounds more a year to keep it in the family. In the Times, a retired barrister who felt forced to give up the seaside pad she had bought in her mother\u2019s native St Davids complained of the tax \u201cdestroying generations of community-building\u201d, as though houses sitting empty all winter were the one thing really guaranteed to bring a thriving community together. To which one can only say: people, learn to read a room(s). You\u2019ve certainly got enough of them. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Why the anger? 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