Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue

3:45 pm

Ms Josephine Feehily:

I explained previously that our priority in the beginning was to establish the tax and establish the register, and we have been doing that. When we only have to do this once, as we will next year - this year we had to do it all twice - the staff who are merrily answering the telephones now will be available to us for compliance campaigns and they will begin very early in the new year. We have new data sources which we are adding all the time. We will do two things beginning in the new year. We will obviously be following through with deductions for people who have not filed this time. We will also be scrutinising the outliers regarding valuations. We now have data that show us in certain parts of the country clear outliers - we can see norms and ones that are not in the norm. We will be looking at valuations and we will also be looking at other data sources such as property registers where we can see gaps where we have had no compliance and we will follow them up. As we said previously, at the end of the day from now on no property can be disposed of without this tax being brought up to date. So we have a pinch point there in any event which will continue to build our register.

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