Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Revenue Commissioners will commence next week to send out communications to householders informing them of the estimate that they have put on the property tax which will be required to be paid. What will then happen is each householder will have the opportunity of making a return to the Revenue and declaring what he or she understands the value of his or her property to be for the purposes of the property tax. The Revenue Commissioners will pursue an information campaign beginning next week informing householders about the steps they can take to make that declaration and the steps they can take where letters have been issued either in error or in duplicate form because, up to relatively recently, there was not a full database of properties owned in the State. What we are dealing with over the next number of weeks is a period where householders can contact the Revenue Commissioners. If the estimate is considered to be inaccurate or wrong, they can make a declaration as to what is the value of their property and I encourage everybody who gets a communication from the Revenue Commissioners to make that contact with them where they believe that the information sent to them is in any way inaccurate, overstated or wrongly stated.

This is a tax measure, which is required to be collected. The Revenue Commissioners is the authority which collects tax in the country and as with all taxes for which it is responsible it will use the methods available to them to ensure the tax is paid. I am sure Sinn Féin, along with every other party in the House, will encourage everybody to be tax compliant.

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