{"id":72599,"date":"2017-11-23T02:35:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T19:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/empty-homes-council-tax-rise-unlikely-to-deter-rich-owners-say-critics\/"},"modified":"2017-11-23T03:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T20:04:06","slug":"empty-homes-council-tax-rise-unlikely-to-deter-rich-owners-say-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/empty-homes-council-tax-rise-unlikely-to-deter-rich-owners-say-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty homes council tax rise unlikely to deter rich owners, say critics"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHammond\u2019s 100% extra tax on vacant property dismissed as \u2018joke\u2019 unlikely to hit wealthy buyers or spur re-use of housingThe government\u2019s plan to tackle the housing crisis by increasing council tax on empty homes has been labelled a joke which will have very little effect on the oligarchs, foreign royals and multi-millionaire businesses who own hundreds of expensive vacant properties in the UK. . Related: Key points from budget 2017 \u2013 at a glance Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Hammond\u2019s 100% extra tax on vacant property dismissed as \u2018joke\u2019 unlikely to hit wealthy buyers...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-iSX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":92296,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/in-desirable-southwold-locals-rise-up-against-blight-of-empty-holiday-homes\/","url_meta":{"origin":72599,"position":0},"title":"In desirable Southwold, locals rise up against blight of empty holiday homes","date":"June 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Property investors accused of squeezing the life out of picturesque Suffolk resort and distorting economy\u201cWe don\u2019t wish to be sounding nimby, or that we\u2019re not keeping up with the times,\u201d worries Will Windell, a Southwold councillor, \u201cbut you need to see the effect that this stuff has in a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":87861,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/as-hong-kong-considers-a-tax-on-empty-property-how-do-other-places-deal-with-unoccupied-homes\/","url_meta":{"origin":72599,"position":1},"title":"As Hong Kong considers a tax on empty property, how do other places deal with unoccupied homes?","date":"May 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hong Kong\u2019s government is debating imposing a tax on vacant properties as a way of helping ease the city\u2019s acute housing shortage. 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