Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 January 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Account of the Receipt of the Revenue of the State collected by the Revenue Commissioners 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 20 - Assessment and Collection of Local Property Tax
Chapter 21 - Revenues Tax Debt Warehousing Scheme
Chapter 22 - Corporation Tax Losses
9:30 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
I have just a few questions. We will have a second round, and Deputy Stanley will be back in a few minutes.
As regards the local property tax, my big issue is how it is distributed. There was a baseline survey. It has nothing to do with Revenue. Essentially, however, the distribution discriminates against areas that have growing populations and gives an advantage to areas that are geographically big. That is my big issue with it. One thing that was brought to my attention recently by a constituent was that he received his bill and, when he looked at it, it was for a different property in a different county. His name was on the top of the letter and it was addressed to him. I know that when there are a very large number of bills to send out there will be the odd mistake. Are there problems, GDPR issues, within the system that have presented at all, or would that be a very isolated case?
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