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PRTB Price Increase explained (by the Private Residential Tenancies Board)
found out that the PRTB was going to increase the price it charged to a landlord to register a tenancy and decided to email them asking...
Our letter to Kevin Cardiff (Dept. of Finance) regarding Section 23 properties
We felt compelled to seek an explanation of the change in rules surrounding Section 23 properties in the recent budget. This is effect...
Are investment property owners ‘hard pressed’?
PTsb are going to take away investors tracker mortgages unless they go to capital and interest payments, that story was broken by Charl...
Site Value Tax: What is it? How does it work?
I volunteer with a group called Smart Taxes who are a sustainable taxation think tank. This has post is taken from their site (original...
Who shall we tax next? Progressive DIRT
The government will be hard pressed to decide who to squeeze next, if you go after the poor (which we take to be people earning less th...
Should Capital Gains even exist?
We have long been critics of the taxation system in general, primarily on the basis that the tax base doesn't make sense, it should be ...
The new National Pensions Framework
The aim of the new pensions framework is to deliver lasting security, equity, clarity and choice to the individual. To a degree we are ...
Why does a state owned bank subsidise depositors?
There is concept in finance of a 'risk free rate', and normally that is seen as being the rate of return on money by a sovereign entity...
Tax liabilities on negative cashflows? The perils of renting out your home
There is an interesting situation that we are seeing much more of lately, where people in negative equity or negligible equity are deci...