Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance
11:20 am
Ms Josephine Feehily:
No, that is the payment period. The tax is stable for three and a half years, until November 2016, the new valuation date for 2017. A deferral is available until a person's circumstances change in most cases. Therefore, people should come back if their circumstances have changed. However, if the person remains on jobseeker's allowance, the deferral will continue. Some deferrals have a specific time period such as the one being proposed for homes affected by pyrite, which is three years. If a person is and remains on jobseeker's allowance, he or she is not expected to come back every year to say this. We will have that information.