Housing State examining escape route for farmers facing hefty land hoarding tax bills Minister for agriculture says farmers will be given ‘a route to de-zone their land’ and escape six-figure tax bills
Legal Just small fraction of landowners legally challenge hefty land hoarding taxesMore than 620 landowners lodged appeals with An Bord Pleanála in April after they were notified they faced large land-hoarding taxes
Planning Planning authority rejected 80% of appeals against new land hoarding taxLandowners - including heavy-weight developers - now exploring legal challenges to An Bord Pleanála rulings
Planning Planning authority to pay up to €550 for each land hoarding tax appeal processed to clear backlogOver 500 urgent appeals contesting the must be reviewed by An Bord Pleanála in the next two months
Planning O’Reilly’s Castlethorn fails in bid to avoid tax bill over land hoardingAn Bord Pleanála has publish its first rulings on appeals lodged by landowners against controversial tax on idle land, which is due to take effect in February 2024
Zoned Land Farmers gain ground in push to avoid paying zoned land taxNew tax is aimed at releasing 25,000 acres for housing, but many owners have no interest in selling land which they have been farming for generations
Zoned Land Some farmers may get exemption from land hoarding tax ‘Actively farmed’ land set to be excluded as government faces growing rural backlash
Land Zoning Sixty-five appeals against land hoarding tax filed by site ownersSome of owners of residentially zoned land, which is lying idle, face six-figure levies under the government’s crackdown on land hoarding
Planning DCU faces land hoarding tax bill after appeal rejectedLocal authorities have started to inform landowners if they will be hit with the new levy on unused residential land
Planning Developers of ‘frozen’ sites to be exempt from residential zoned land taxOwners of land phased for future housing development will not be liable for the Department of Housing’s new 3 per cent tax
Planning Home buyers will foot the bill for land hoarding tax, says lobby groupProperty Industry Ireland has warned the government that the incoming residential zoned land tax (RZLT) will only make housing more expensive
Planning Developers push back against new land-hoarding taxesHomebuilders and investment funds are lobbying to avoid millions of euro-worth of taxes on inactive land banks which have received planning permission
Housing Cairn seeks to avoid land hoarding fine on former RTÉ siteDeveloper in line for hit of €3 million per annum on holding it says it can’t develop due to opposition from local residents and other issues
Comment & Analysis Comment: ‘New land tax could push up the price of Irish homes’Will the new Residential Zoned Land Tax stimulate or stymie development, asks Pat Davitt of Ipav