Just under a million have now paid property tax
Almost one million people have now paid or made arrangements to pay their local property tax, with one week to go to the deadline for filing the tax return. To date more than 948,522 returns have been...
View ArticleHogan expecting a late surge in property tax payments
Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan says he is expecting a “massive late surge” in property tax payments before Tuesday’s deadline. Almost one million have paid the controversial new tax to date...
View ArticleRevenue extends property tax deadline
The Revenue Commissioners has extended the deadline for filing Local Property Tax returns until 8pm tonight. The deadline had initially been set for midnight yesterday, May 28th. A spokesperson for...
View ArticleOver 90% return property tax forms
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...
View ArticleThose who have not paid property tax will not be charged interest
Homeowners who refused to register for the property tax will not be hit with an interest charge when the money is automatically deducted from their salaries, pensions or bank accounts on July 1. The...
View ArticleSinn Féin plan bill to repeal property tax
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...
View ArticleIrish Water confident water charges will be paid
The managing director of Irish Water has said he is confident that water charges will be paid by householders using the public supply when metering is introduced. John Tierney said recent experience...
View ArticleHogan insists water charges will not cost over €1,000 a year
Environment Minister Phil Hogan has denied that water charges could eventually cost over €1,000 per household. He was replying to Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins, who accused the Government of being...
View ArticleCouncillor resigns over property tax payment
A Drogheda Borough Council Socialist Party councillor in Louth will resign his seat after an unknown member of the public paid the property tax on his behalf. It is understood that Frank Gallagher had...
View ArticleThe household charge could yet come back to bite people
The household charge. It’s the tax that simply won’t go away. Well, not yet anyway. The charge, which initially was introduced in January 2012 and had to be paid by the end of March that year, is still...
View ArticleHousehold Charge compliance now exceeds 80%
Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government Phil Hogan has thanked the vast majority who have registered their properties and paid the household charge. To date 1,286,802 properties...
View Article27% fail to meet deadline for NPPR charge
Some 27% of owners of second homes have yet to pay the NPPR charge – despite the passing of the payment deadline on Sunday night. Only 255,000 owners had registered by midnight on Sunday, compared to a...
View ArticleMore than 109,000 opt to pay property tax by cash
Payzone have revealed that more than 109,000 homeowners opted to pay their property tax in cash. Property owners who have yet to pay have until the end of this month to make the payments through a...
View ArticleRevenue to take property tax from source from next week
The Office of the Revenue Commissioners has told more than 50,000 property owners that they will begin telling employers and pension providers to deduct the Local Property Tax from non-payers at source...
View ArticlePaper filing deadline for Local Property Tax extended
The Revenue Commissioners has extended a deadline for homeowners to inform them how they will pay their property tax next year. The paper filing deadline has been pushed back by a week to Thursday, 14...
View ArticleRevenue admits it could have handled property tax communications better
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...
View ArticleLatest ECB rate cut is good news… but not for everyone
Yesterday the European Central Bank announced that it was cutting its main interest rate to a new low of 0.25%, leaving around 400,000 tracker mortgage holders celebrating an early Christmas present....
View ArticleThousands expected to receive property tax refunds
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...
View ArticlePaper filing deadline for property tax today
Today is the first deadline for filing a written Local Property Tax return. Returns postmarked with today’s date will be considered to be on time. If you miss the paper filing deadline, you can still...
View ArticleMore than half a million have already paid next year’s property tax
More than 500,000 returns for next year’s Local Property Tax have been made to date according to Minister for Finance Michael Noonan. Speaking in the Dáil this morning, Mr Noonan said the...
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