Daft Property - Irish Property News

Stealth charges force us to suffer a lifetime of levies. Whether it's pensions, insurance or just going to the shop, we're all being taxed to the hilt... STEALTH taxes have us in their icy grip from cradle to grave -- from the €10 to register a birth to the €10 death-certificate charge when we finally leave a life of levies and hidden charges. At all points between we are bombarded with demands for money from the State and private companies acting at its behest. There is no escape. All we can do is bend the knee to our revenue-raising overlords and watch as the money we earn, already taxed to the hilt at source, is taxed again and again as it leaves our purse or pocket. And a range of increased charges is on its way. The levy for sending waste to landfill will more than double between now and 2012. From September -- it will rise from the current €30 per tonne of waste to €50 a tonne, increasing to €65 in July 2012, and €75 in July 2013. Do we really think the private