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mrhenrymorris.substack.com • 64 days ago

That'll be the two homes you own.

https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/money/article/inherited-parents-house-second-home-owner-dxtq38j8k

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towncalledmalice.bsky.social•64 days ago

📌

masterklump.bsky.social•64 days ago

'I was out pruning the roses when I noticed a gentleman from the Royal Mail leaving a letter in the smaller conservatory. Can you imagine my surprise and disappointment when I found it to be an invoice for another home that had apparently come into my possession. This country is in a terrible mess!'

nash0rn.bsky.social•64 days ago

That's when those ice-cold neoliberal capitalists are getting emotional....

sophiecollins.bsky.social•64 days ago

The hoity toity ‘why me?’ Incredulity is fantastic

howitisnow.bsky.social•64 days ago

But surely she is the only person in the country that has ended up in this situation by these means. Can't they make an exception?

beninchamonix.bsky.social•64 days ago

Latest in a Times / Telegraph series of affluent people being outraged about having to pay some tax (see also private school VAT, Inheritance Tax…)

andywheatley.bsky.social•64 days ago

Will somebody please think of the second home owners!

puckoon.bsky.social•64 days ago

The Tax Dodgers Alliance - always on the side of the poor.

c4r0l3.bsky.social•64 days ago

Some people... *sigh* it ain't rocket science is it?? 🤦

soapachu.bsky.social•64 days ago

It's extremely difficult to feel any shred of sympathy for these people

mrhenrymorris.substack.com•64 days ago

If they can't count to two then I feel sorry for them.

soapachu.bsky.social•64 days ago

You can tell they think it's totally normal to have multiple properties. Everyone they know does it...

cjnmcg.bsky.social•64 days ago

So, I assume if the rent the property out, then the second home charges become normal renters charges, or do councils double charge?

davefernig.bsky.social•64 days ago

One would assume renters.
There is a lot of reform required, not least for property tax to be linearly proportional to the value of the property.
Councils might then be able to provide something approximating decent services..

rebussy.bsky.social•64 days ago

Next week: how very dare the DVLA insist I pay tax on both my cars, even though I can only be driving one at a time? And they do the same to my husband, so that's four lots of tax for two people who are struggling to get by as it!

ted42.bsky.social•64 days ago

So the story is that a policy, designed to free up second homes for people without first homes, is achieving its policy goal.

Ok. Well done everyone.

pygmyshrew.bsky.social•64 days ago

So good you'll want to read it and weep for this sorry woman: so poor all she has left is money...
Read without a paywall
https://archive.is/URcee

davefernig.bsky.social•64 days ago

Thanks - good to see the Tax avoiders alliance on the case too.

swworcester.bsky.social•64 days ago

Life is so unfair

lucyarnold.bsky.social•64 days ago

“We would have liked to have kept the bungalow for at least another few years, but this has meant we have to put it on the market.”

Sooooo, the Council's plan to give local people living in the area a chance to buy their own home worked then? This is a problem, why?

evilrobotme.bsky.social•64 days ago

You can prove anything with maths.

johnmacpherson.bsky.social•64 days ago

You can burn anything with meths.

lexiconmistress.bsky.social•64 days ago

Person with two houses being treated as person with two houses shocker

davefernig.bsky.social•64 days ago

Country going to the dogs for sure.

ljhblurbsmith.bsky.social•64 days ago

Well duh?

stiggylou.bsky.social•64 days ago

My mum and her husband have a fairly expensive house with no mortgage. And investments. If she hasn’t written me out of the will (we don’t speak), then I stand to inherit. I didn’t earn it or pay for it.

waggermoon.bsky.social•64 days ago

Forced to sell to become second-homeless?

hobsonkeith.bsky.social•64 days ago

Schrodingers bungalow.

fatraccoon.bsky.social•64 days ago

Housing is not for hoarding.

djmarkymarc.bsky.social•64 days ago

Duh!

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