Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to ask about the half-year returns made earlier this year. People received from Revenue their notifications, estimates and return forms. In some cases, those estimates were way out. A house might have been placed in band 4. According to www.daft.ie or sales in the area in the past year, however, that house should have been in band 2. I have encountered such cases. The people involved would have written to Revenue, filed a return and submitted evidence to back up their claims, for example, the sale prices of the last four houses sold in the area, the fact that their houses were old and had lower specifications and a similar one sold for a certain amount in the past nine months, etc. I accept that Revenue made clear at the time that it was a self-assessment, but people have not heard a squeak since filing their returns. What is happening? People did not know what to pay for the six months of this year. The issue is hanging.