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Council votes for holiday
home tax
05.02.08
DONEGAL County Council
has voted in favour of levying a tax on holiday
homes in the county.
Culdaff-based Cllr. Bernard McGuinness, who proposed
the motion, said the local authority was losing out
on around €4m annually by not imposing charges on
the estimated 8,000 holiday homes in the county.
Many of these homes are owned by people from the
North who use them at weekends and during the summer
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Cllr. McGuinness said
the local authority was in "dire straits"
financially and the motion he tabled would also send
a message to central Government that more funding
was necessary for Donegal.
Meanwhile, he said he knew of a number of holiday
homeowners who were willing to pay a small fee for
services such as water. However, there are many
others who will resent the imposition of a tax on
their second home.
Councillors will continue to hold |
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meetings with
Government Ministers in relation to the procedure
for levying the new tax.
"I believe that because we are a border county, we
should get extra funding for cross border
developments from central Government," said Cllr.
McGuinness. |
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