There’s no business case to capping tax take

The proposed government policy to cap the tax take from property construction projects at a time when property values are rising countrywide at a rate far exceeding inflation is misguided and truly alarming.

Have they learned nothing.

Such a policy is pro-cyclical and would fuel property prices and promote a new property bubble.

They should instead maintain the property tax rates and either bank the take for a rainy day or use it now to pay off more of our economically, socially and environmentally destructive national debt.

Kevin T Finn

Kingston Close

Mitchelstown

Co. Cork

Ireland