Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
9:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Not only do we levy a poverty tax from people who cannot afford to change their cars, we are now ripping off the poor. The witness is saying that if he or she is liable to pay €1,000 in tax on an old car, a motorist is charged approximately €280 extra to pay by the quarter. If he or she pays online, the cost per transaction is €5. As such, the actual cost to the Department of processing four quarterly payments is €20 but it charges people up to €280 to pay in that way.
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