Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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454. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by re-introducing and doubling the non-principal private residence tax from the rate it was applied previously. [31236/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The Local Government (Charges) Act 2009, as amended, provides the legislative basis for the Non-Principal Private Residence (NPPR) Charge. The NPPR Charge, which has since been discontinued, applied in the years 2009 to 2013 to any residential property in which the owner did not reside as their normal place of residence.

The self-assessed charge was s set at €200 per annum and liability for it falls, in the main, on owners of rental, holiday and vacant properties. Under the Act, it is a function of a local authority to collect NPPR Charges, and late payment fees due to it and all Charges and late payment fees imposed and payable to a local authority are under the care and management of the local authority concerned. Proceeds from the charge are retained by local authorities and are used for the provision of local services.

Based on data provided by the Local Government Management Agency, I am informed that 359,678 properties are registered by their owners as liable for the non-principal private residence charge for 2013, the last year of the charge. A doubling of the charge to €400 could therefore potentially be expected to raise in the region of €144 million per annum if the level of properties liable remains unchanged from the 2013 position.