Hi Guys,

If you are buying and second hand house in april, would you hv to pay house hold charge, it seems to me that its only for owner of property on 1st Jan 2012, below text from house hold charge . ie
Owners of residential property on the liability date of 1st of January 2012, subject to a limited number of exemptions and waivers set out below, are liable to pay the household charge by 31st of March.

Thanks

+1 assuming it has been paid.

However you will be liable for whatever new version comes next year.

But if it has not been paid by previous owners then??????????????

Then your solicitor will so warn you.

You'd think most purchasers solicitors worth their salt would make it a requirement of sale that the charge be already paid.

That said, if the buyer was a *conscientious objector* they mightn't want the property on the government register.

Get real. This obsession and paranoia about the HouseHold charge has reached ridculous levels.
If you are buying a house - why would you spend 10 seconds worrying about ta €100 charge: if there any cost involved in buying a house lower than this ?
The surveyor is higher, the solicitor is damn sure higher, you may even have to pay a deposit and some stamp duty, and of course there is the life and property insurance !
In my recent house purchace it amount for about 0.02% of the overall cost.

All this HH whining (and I'm not say this thread is necessarily that) is re-inforcing again that we haven't really learned much from the celtic tiger days; scapegoating Bertie, Galway tents, bankers and whatever (no matter how guilty) can't get away from the fact that there is an obsessive attachment to property 'rights' in Ireland which would have made it damn near impossible for politicians to introduce the necessary property tax, and god protect any who wanted to mess with Section 23, first time buyers interest relief or any of the other market distorting measures.

ratminer, methinks you're overestimating the concern people have here.

Just because this is a small charge in comparison to the rest of the outlay, doesn't mean this is an irrelevant question.