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250,000 households to receive household charge letters

Revenue Commissioners chairman Josephine Feehily has said thousands of people will wrongly receive letters telling them to pay the household charge. Ms Feehily said mismatches between the data of the Local Government Management Agency and the Local Property Tax database mean that thousands of people…

56 homes valued at over €5m for property tax

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Fifty-six people valued their homes above €5 million for the purposes of the property tax last year, making them liable for an annual tax bill of at least €11,800 each. New figures provided to the Dáil Public Accounts Committee outline the most expensive homes in…

Revenue Commissioners to "go after" those who failed to pay household charge from April

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The Revenue Commissioners has warned that it will "go after" the 400,000 to 500,000 people who have not yet paid the €200 household charge from the beginning of April. A €100 charge was introduced as an interim measure ahead of the Local Property Tax (LPT)…

Thousands expected to receive property tax refunds

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Thousands of homeowners are expected to receive refunds on their local property tax due to an unclear clause in the legislation. Revenue said that this move was related to a clause in legislation which was originally intended to give an exemption to some first time…

Revenue admits it could have handled property tax communications better

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The Chairperson of the Revenue Commissioners has admitted it could have handled communications better in relation to the payment of the Local Property Tax. Josephine Feehily was speaking at the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform yesterday. Her appearance followed criticism of…

Local Property Tax to be discussed by government today

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The handling of payments for the Local Property Tax is due to be discussed by Government ministers at their weekly meeting. During the past week, controversy has raged over the requirement for early payment of next year's property tax by people using credit or debit…

Over 90% return property tax forms

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The Revenue Commissioners had received almost 1,518,000 filings for the Local Property Tax by 4pm yesterday afternoon, indicating a compliance rate above 90%. Revenue had sent 1.66m notifications to liable property owners and had aimed for compliance of 80% by the end of the…

Not everyone liable for property tax will receive letters – but they still must pay

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The Revenue Commissioners has said that several thousand homeowners - liable for Property Tax - will not receive letters. The target of over 1.6 million letters have now all been sent to properties around the country. However due to errors in the computer system -…

Revenue will begin deducting property tax from payrolls as early as June for those who do not pay

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Revenue Commissioners chairman Josephine Feehily has warned that they will begin deducting the local property tax from people’s pay or social welfare payments from as early as June, if they refuse to pay the charge before the deadline. In an update on the progress of…

Revenue admits there will be errors in property tax letters

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Details of the local property tax have been outlined by the Revenue Commissioners. From next Sunday a guide for values will go online. Revenue said that from next week letters will be sent to owners of 1.6 million houses. It will take four weeks…