Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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143. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of households broken down by local authority area that have currently registered for the local property tax; the total number of households broken down by local authority area targeted by the Local Government Management Authority for registration for the local property tax; if he will provide a breakdown of figures of those households that have registered for the property tax between those that are the registrations of single home owners and those that form part of multiple registrations by the same owner. [24215/13]

Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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154. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide figures by local authority area for the registration of property tax; the number of registrations that have been multiple registrations by one home owner; the number of properties in total that have been registered that are owned by owners of multiple properties as opposed to single home owners; the number of registrations that have been by post as opposed to electronic; the number of property tax payments that are below the estimate quoted by the Revenue Commissioners to the householder. [23758/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 143 and 154 together.

I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that Local Property Tax (LPT) Returns, personalised letters and an LPT Guide have issued to owners of 1.66 million residential properties either by post or by way of their ROS (Revenue Online Service) inbox. The Commissioners have confirmed that in excess of 948,522 LPT Returns have been filed up to Monday 20 May 2013. Of the returns received, 657,157 we re filed electronically and 291,365 were paper returns.

As the Deputy will appreciate, with returns being filed on a constant basis, the Commissioners' focus is on processing the returns, dealing with correspondence, telephone calls and payment processing. It would not be practical or particularly useful for the Revenue Commissioners to carry out detailed analysis on the filing of returns by single and multiple property owners or on the number of returns received where the owner's self-assessment of their LPT liability was less than the Estimate quoted by Revenue, until after the online filing deadline of 28 May 2013 has passed. Similarly, it is not possible to provide a breakdown of the number of LPT returns filed on a regional or administrative basis until after 28 May.

With regard to the Deputy's request for the total number of households broken down by local authority area targeted by the Local Government Management Authority for registration for the LPT, I would like to clarify that the administration of the tax is the sole responsibility of the Revenue Commissioners.