Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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197. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will arrange for a person's local property tax liability details to be reviewed as it appears there are duplicate entries for the same person on the Revenue's records. [50743/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by Revenue that a key aspect of the work undertaken in connection with the administration of Local Property Tax (LPT) has been the development of a register of residential properties in the State. The development of the Property Register required Revenue to extract and consolidate data from multiple Government and non-Government sources. During this process duplicate records were added to the Register in some circumstances, mainly due to differences in address records. Revenue emphasised during its communications programme that errors in the compilation of the Property Register were inevitable given the scale of the task. Revenue also requested anybody who received incorrect communications about their properties to contact the LPT Helpline or write to the LPT Branch to ensure that the correct information was on file.

In the case raised by the Deputy, Revenue has confirmed that a duplicate address existed on the Register. The LPT team has now removed the duplicate and will make direct contact with the person to confirm the Property ID and PIN Code for the correct property and to provide assistance with the filing process.