Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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496. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the introduction of a system whereby hauliers can pay their road tax in monthly instalments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7791/14]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I have no plans to change the available options for payment of motor tax, which can currently be paid on an annual, half-yearly or quarterly basis. Any changes to the incremental basis of payment of motor tax would require a surcharge, similar to that currently applying to half-yearly and quarterly discs, to be applied to monthly discs to compensate for the increased cost of administration associated with the processing and issuing of additional discs. In addition, the introduction of a monthly disc would have a negative impact on the flow of income to the Local Government Fund and consequently on grant allocations to local authorities from the Fund, or alternatively would require a compensatory adjustment elsewhere in motor tax or other taxation.