Please sign this Petition if you agree that:

 A Family Home is a basic need (shelter) and "essential to life" and should not be taxed (LPT) in any decent, fair and modern Democracy. 

(Note: You DO NOT have to make a contribution to Sign this Petition)

• Shelter (a home) is a basic need in the hierarchy of needs.
• Basic needs such as food, water, air, clothes, sanitation, shelter (homes), healthcare, education, personal transport ...etc are not taxed in decent fair societies,
• The LPT property tax on Family Homes is odious and anti-family. 
• The LPT is a 2-Tier tax: Owner families are taxed LPT on their homes but families in social homes are not.
• Italian voters have scrapped their hated LPT Tax on Family Homes in Dec 2015
• Macron has abolished the French Tax Habitation on homes. 

Each time this Petition is signed an email is automatically sent to those listed above, demanding that the LPT property tax on Irish Family Homes be abolished.

"It is morally wrong, unjust and unfair to tax family homes." (Enda Kenny - 1994)

---- NO MANDATE to TAX FAMILY HOMES ----

No EU Government has a mandate (consent from voters) to tax Family Homes. Tax on Family Homes is a legacy from 12th century central European feudal systems. It is not acceptable in a modern Democracy. 

• Try a Referendum if you claim otherwise. 

**** LIFE ESSENTIALS  *****

 Life Essentials should not be taxed :-

• Food,
• Water,
• Air,
• Shelter (family homes),
• Medicines
• Clothing (remember Gov fell due to tax on children's shoes),
• Sanitation
• Healthcare
• Education ...

----- RURAL HOME OWNERS -----

What Rural Home Owners get for their LPT Property Tax

No Mains Water
No Public Sewage system
No Street Lighting
No Footpaths
No Cycle Lanes
No Buses 
No DART
No Luas
No Public Parks
No Subsidised Theatres

----- NOT WEALTH or ASSETS ----

Family Homes are not:-

• Wealth - because they do not produce revenue streams. 
• Assets - because you can't liquidate them - no where to live.
• Property, like farm land (UNTAXED), Offices, industrial buildings, pubs, shops ... because they are homes.

Family Homes are where families live.

----- LEGITIMATE TAXES -----

Legitimate and just Taxes are those which have the support and consent of the electorate. This LPT Tax Law on Family Homes does NOT have the support or consent of the Irish electorate and is therefore not legitimate. The citizens are sovereign in this Republic.

It is an EU sponsored law and not acceptable. It has been rejected by Irish voters many times in the past ... remember "rates" on family homes!

If you, the current Government wish to obtain consent for this tax then run a Referendum.

---- COERCION not COMPLIANCE -----

The high, so called, "compliance rate" of LPT payment is due to "coercion" by Revenue (by your TDs) who take the LPT tax from your

• pay,
• pensions and
• medical expenses refunds

without consideration for inability to pay, exemptions or right of appeal and take it from families on the death of the owner. 

This LPT Home Tax Law is offensive, regressive and exploitative. It is anti family.

Irish Government should apply the principle of just and fair taxes, as in the Canons of Taxation and abolish LPT or citizens will vote to drain the swamp of "Fake TDs" representatives who clearly do not represent the wishes of the electorate.

The odious LPT on family home has been abolished in Italy and Tax HAbitation has been abolished on homes in France. It should be abolished across the EU because it is a tax on basic needs (shelter is a life essential) and not consistent with the “Canons of Taxation”

Abolition of the LPT, like Italy, is the only just way to reform this odious LPT law. 

Revenue are guilty of maladministration by their coercing people to pay this despicable LPT tax on their family homes which is contrary to all Canons of Taxation.

----- SAD -----

It is sad that elderly people desperately scrimp and save to pay the odious LPT property tax to try and stay in their homes and when they fail to pay, Revenue (TDs) take it from their medical expenses refunds or from their estate when they die. LPT is an odious Law passed in the Irish Dail by unprincipled TDs. 

Sweden has abolished its inheritance tax completely.

---- LPT is a 2-TIER TAX ----

The LPT tax on Family Home Owners is a 2-Tier Tax

• ONLY Home Owner Families have to pay this odious LPT Tax
• State housed Families do not have to pay this LPT Tax!

---- LOCAL SERVICES -----

If the LPT is for “Local Services” then levy charges, fairly, on ALL those who use those services. Families in social homes do not pay any LPT for their services.

----- INHERITANCE TAX ----

Inheritance Tax, another unjust odious tax, is now abolished in many EU countries .. most recently Sweden. It should also be abolished in Ireland.

---- FINANCIAL TRANSACTION TAX  ----

It is unacceptable that there is no FTT in Ireland, yet Family homes are taxed.

Many other EU countries have FTT tax on financial transactions including Germany and France.

---- REFUSE TO BE ABUSED -----

TDs, Senators and MEPs are elected to represent citizen interests NOT the interest of others (lobbies)

Your Irish "Fake TDs" have given the Revenue Commissioners the power to take the Local Property Tax (Tax on your Family Home) from:-

- your bank account
- your pay 
- your welfare payments
- your pension
- your family, when you die
- AND your Medical Expenses Refunds

This is abuse by your elected TDs.

---- DANGEROUS COUNTRY ----

You know you live in a dangerous country when "The rights of the State come before the rights of the citizen."

---- UNJUST ENRICHMENT ----

 Unjust Enrichment : (see Canons of Taxation) 

It is not acceptable that Tax on Family Homes is used to:-

• pay off the debts of private companies i.e. Banks. 
• prop up banks pension funds, bonuses and inflated salaries.

---- ARBITRARY SEIZURE of PROPERTY ----

Arbitrary Seizure of property by the State:-

• by levy of this LPT Tax, with no consideration for inability to pay.
• deferral if people can't pay, until they die, and then take it from their families.
• force people to sell their homes so that some wealthy person or vulture fund can buy them!

---- REFUND of  PROPERTY TAX on FAMILY HOMES ---

• Gov should budget for refunds of this unjust, anti family, odious tax on their Family Homes .

---- Bankocracy NOT Democracy! -----

The EU looks more like a Bankocracy or Taxocracy NOT a Democracy!

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The internet opens the door to Direct Citizen Democracy.

"You can vote now to instruct your TD by signing Petitions.

You don't have to wait 'till the next election!

 "Refuse to be Abused" - and bring your brains to the Polling Booths!

Abolish this offensive anti family Local Property Tax Law by signing this ePetition.  

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