dwazoup@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agoSpanish Government to Impose 100% Tax on Non-EU Home Buyerswww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1179arrow-down13
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minus-squareNocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·edit-21 month agoShouldn’t the tax be on people buying houses they don’t live in instead? Functionally the same, unless their intention is to push out immigrants.
minus-squareguillem@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 month agoUnless I’m missing something, all (regularised) immigrants in Spain are EU residents. ETA: but yeah, taxing empty homes would be better but the people who have more of those probably also have friends in the government.
minus-squareSaleh@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoNon resident buyers means empty homes for a larger part of the year. Because these are only speculative or holiday homes. Taxing empty homes is good, but also more difficult to enforce.
minus-squareCornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoBecause enforcing that is basically impossible.
minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThis is not aimed at immigrants. Foreign workers will be excluded. This is still just a proposal, it may or may not pass in the parliament.
Shouldn’t the tax be on people buying houses they don’t live in instead? Functionally the same, unless their intention is to push out immigrants.
Unless I’m missing something, all (regularised) immigrants in Spain are EU residents.
ETA: but yeah, taxing empty homes would be better but the people who have more of those probably also have friends in the government.
Non resident buyers means empty homes for a larger part of the year. Because these are only speculative or holiday homes.
Taxing empty homes is good, but also more difficult to enforce.
Because enforcing that is basically impossible.
This is not aimed at immigrants. Foreign workers will be excluded.
This is still just a proposal, it may or may not pass in the parliament.