Only 133,365 properties have registered and paid the household tax, amounting to only 8% registration with one month to go. The figures were revealed on Morning Ireland by the head of the household charge board. This confirms that mass non-registration of the tax is entirely possible. The CAHWT calls on householders to maintain the boycott [...]
Comment: Privatisations will only serve to deepen economic crisis
On February - 25 - 2012
The decision by the government to sell off €3 billion worth of state assets is arguably the most economically and socially criminal of the many criminal policies implemented in this State over the past three years in the interest of salvaging the financial system in Europe from the consequences of the speculative activities of its [...]
Video: Joe Higgins questions Taoiseach over visit of Chinese Vice-President
On February - 22 - 2012
Dr. Liu Xiaobo is in his third year of an 11 year sentence in China. His crime was to write a charter seeking democracy, freedom of speech and religion and an independent judiciary. Over Christmas, Chen Xi was sentenced to ten years in jail in south-west China for the crime of writing articles on the [...]
Comment: Finance Bill is reflective of Government having no solution to crisis except making ordinary people pay
On February - 12 - 2012
The government’s newest job creation gimmick revealed in the Finance Bill just published, really does point up its policy bankruptcy in dealing with the crisis of mass unemployment in the State. The huge tax break offered to senior executives earning up to half a million Euro per annum, who work for transnational corporations and would [...]
Video: Joe Higgins warns Government over growing momentum for Anti-Household Tax Boycott Campaign
On February - 8 - 2012
Last night, more than 700 people packed into the Tower Hotel in Waterford to demand withdrawal of this Government’s household and related taxes. The local media will confirm the details as they will for the 400 in Carlow on Monday night and similar meetings held from Wexford to Donegal on other nights. Last night, a [...]
CAHWT Press Statement: Hogan’s climbdown reflects growing pressure on home taxes
On February - 7 - 2012
Hogan’s climbdown reflects growing pressure on home taxes The concession by the government on the septic tank registration charge is a desperate attempt to stem the growing opposition to household taxes. Momentum is now building against the household tax and, with 95% still not paying, the government faces mass non-registration of the first troika-imposed tax. [...]
Comment: There must be a referendum on Austerity Treaty
On February - 6 - 2012
Usually it takes some years for a new government to develop a haughty arrogance toward the people who put it in power. With the current Fine Gael/Labour Coalition this time span has been shortened to less than one year, something to do no doubt, with its huge majority of sixty in the Dáil. That arrogance [...]
