Dáil debates
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Other Questions
Property Tax
5:40 pm
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
Karl. The spectre I refer to is the unfair property tax and the dramatic hikes because of property prices increasing by 71%.
5 o’clock
The Minister has acknowledged the folly of this unfair property tax by deferring the initial revaluation and is now talking about a cross-departmental review. Does he not think it is time to acknowledge that there is no way of tweaking the property tax that will make it fair because by its nature, it is regressive and will hit low and middle-income families?
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