Discussions have taken place between Revenue and the Department of Social Protection about deducting Property Tax at source from welfare benefits and payments. Willie O’Dea Fianna Fail TD for Limerick spoke to Pat this morning.
In the past hour the revenue commissioners have been holding a press conference about the new property tax. The reality of the new charge for house owners will hit home next week when assessment letters from revenue begin arriving in the post. Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners Josephine Feehily hotfooted it from this morning’s press conference and was with Pat in studio.
The new web site that makes property tax “easy to pay but hard to evade”, according to the Revenue Commissioners, is up and running. Home owners can select their county, type of house and age of the property and check online what property tax they should pay. However it has already come in for criticism as being too vague and lacking in detail, for example does not specify the size of the house or the number of bedrooms. The property web site Daft.ie suggests half of the houses are in the correct band which means that means 50% are incorrectly ...