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Sinn Féin plan bill to repeal property tax

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

Sinn Féin are hopeful of putting a bill before the Dáil in the coming days to repeal the Local Property Tax. The opposition party are using its private members time in Dáil both last night and tonight to put forward a bill seeking to overturn…

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26,000 property tax letters sent to the wrong address

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

More than 26,000 property tax demands have been returned because the addressee is “not known at this address”. Finance Minister Michael Noonan said a number of factors were involved in the mis-mail which saw so many local property tax (LPT) demands returned unopened. “I am…

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Just one in five have paid property tax to date

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

Just one in five homeowners have paid their property tax to date, just days before the deadline passes for postal forms to be returned. The Department of Finance confirmed yesterday that €22.2m had been collected from compliant homeowners so far – well short of the…

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

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

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 -…

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Property tax a "huge challenge" for Revenue

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

In its annual report today, The Revenue Commissioners have admitted that implementing the property tax was a “huge challenge” for them. Revenue said because it had drawn up a list of homeowners from multiple sources there had been errors, which it had anticipated and had…

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Is your property tax estimate accurate?

General, Home, Industry News, Mortgages & Money, Property News

By now most people will have received letters from the Revenue Commissioners detailing what they are expected to pay towards the new property tax. Of course, these letters are just estimates and people have the right to lower or higher the valuation of their home…

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Kids who received property tax letters suffering from stress

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

Anti-property tax campaigners say children who have wrongly received demand letters from the Revenue Commissioners are suffering stress and anxiety. Officials have written to the teenagers in error, and demanded payment of the tax which is due in July. A group of youngsters staged a…

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A third of people insist they won't pay property tax

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

Almost one third of people in a new survey say they do not intend to pay the property tax. According to a Red C poll in yesterday's Sunday Business Post, 29% of those eligible for the tax say they do not plan to pay it.…

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No tax clearance cert for those who fail to pay property tax

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

Tax clearance certificates will not be issued to self-employed workers if they fail to pay the new property tax. The Revenue Commissioners have been granted authority to veto tax clearance certs for individuals who are found not to have paid the new tax – which…

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Taking property tax from bank accounts will be a last resort, insists Taoiseach

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said plans by the Revenue Commissioners to take the property tax from people's bank accounts, salaries or social welfare payments would only be a last resort. Revenue Commissioner Josephine Feehily confirmed to an Oireachtas Committee the range of powers that can…

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