An empty house tax targets home owners who let a property sit empty for a certain length of time. New Zealand would not be breaking new ground with an empty house tax. What’s more, New Zealand has the infrastructural prerequisites needed to implement an empty house tax. In Ireland, the empty house tax is three times the property’s existing base local property tax. To ensure the success of the empty house tax, we need to include credible measures to monitor compliance.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 05, 2023 13:34 UTC