"Oliver Keating" wrote in message
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"Cast_Iron" wrote in message
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Given the that the increased road congestion in Friday and Sunday
evenings
is caused by many people going and from to their country cottages for
the
weekend, isn't it time that second homes attracted a punative rate of
council tax?

An added bonus of this would be to free-up houses in rural and other
touristy areas that young people on local wages could afford to buy or
rent
who would then spend money in the local economy.



Absouletely. Anyone with a second home should be made to absolutely pay
through-the-nose for it.



Are you suggesting then that people who buy a small flat near their place of
work and have a house in the suburbs or countryside where the rest of their
family live should be penalised for it? Surely you would advocate people
living close to where they work and reducing their reliance upon the
transport infrastructure? Taxes like everything work both ways.

Mikael