Threats to deduct household tax misleading & will be fought
20 Dec 2011 Press statement from Joe Higgins TD and Clare Daly TD, Socialist Party
/ United Left Alliance Threats to deduct household tax misleading & will be fought
Alarmist media headlines over the past week give the impression that
€2,500 could easily be deducted from the wages and welfare payments of
householders boycotting the registration and payment of the new
household tax. In fact such legislation does not even exist at this
time. Nor does any legislation allow for the tax itself to be
deducted. The headlines add to the scaremongering by the government which sees
the anger of ordinary people over a new burden on them and hopes to
intimidate and frighten them into submission. The critical issue here is that there should be a massive boycott of
the registration and payment of this new tax. The government has set a
deadline of March 31st for registration, but if as the Campaign
Against Household and Water Taxes urges, we arrive at the end of March
with a massive number of householders refusing to register, this will
demonstrate that this tax does not have any legitimacy and that a
powerful campaign can be built to defeat it. It is quite amazing that the government is willing to consider
forcibly deducting fines from the poor and from ordinary people but
has treated rich developers and bankers with kid gloves. People should not be detered by the government’s threats as a whole
range of steps would have to be gone through to deduct a fine. After legislation, a person would have to be identified as liable for
the tax, summonsed to court and brought before a judge for not
registering for the tax; a case proved that they should have
registered; and then a fine issued. Only if this fine is unpaid could
an attachment order be issued. If one million people refuse to cooperate with registration, these
threats would be made utterly unworkable. more http://www.socialistparty.net?household%20charge
more http://NoHouseholdTax.org
/ United Left Alliance Threats to deduct household tax misleading & will be fought
Alarmist media headlines over the past week give the impression that
€2,500 could easily be deducted from the wages and welfare payments of
householders boycotting the registration and payment of the new
household tax. In fact such legislation does not even exist at this
time. Nor does any legislation allow for the tax itself to be
deducted. The headlines add to the scaremongering by the government which sees
the anger of ordinary people over a new burden on them and hopes to
intimidate and frighten them into submission. The critical issue here is that there should be a massive boycott of
the registration and payment of this new tax. The government has set a
deadline of March 31st for registration, but if as the Campaign
Against Household and Water Taxes urges, we arrive at the end of March
with a massive number of householders refusing to register, this will
demonstrate that this tax does not have any legitimacy and that a
powerful campaign can be built to defeat it. It is quite amazing that the government is willing to consider
forcibly deducting fines from the poor and from ordinary people but
has treated rich developers and bankers with kid gloves. People should not be detered by the government’s threats as a whole
range of steps would have to be gone through to deduct a fine. After legislation, a person would have to be identified as liable for
the tax, summonsed to court and brought before a judge for not
registering for the tax; a case proved that they should have
registered; and then a fine issued. Only if this fine is unpaid could
an attachment order be issued. If one million people refuse to cooperate with registration, these
threats would be made utterly unworkable. more http://www.socialistparty.net?household%20charge
more http://NoHouseholdTax.org
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