Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 15 - Valuation Office

11:30 am

Mr. John O'Sullivan:

We must first run a pilot in this regard. We have not done this yet and my understanding is that self-assessment for commercial and industrial properties has not been tried elsewhere. I was in touch with the International Property Tax Institute during the week seeking other examples worldwide but I am afraid it was unable to come up with one. As we potentially are breaking new ground in this regard, therefore, we must go very carefully. We must run a pilot-----