Written answers
Thursday, 2 July 2026
Department of Finance
Rental Sector
Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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272. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of continuing trends of landlords exiting the private rental sector and the increase in notices of termination recorded by the Residential Tenancies Board in Q1 2026, he will review the taxation treatment of individual landlords with a view to supporting rental supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50330/26]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Landlords are an essential feature of a functioning housing market. Rising rents are driven by a shortage of supply, so stabilising and increasing the supply of rental properties should ease upward pressure on rental prices and make it easier for prospective tenants to find affordable homes.
Section 21 of Finance (No. 2) Act 2023 introduced the Residential Premises Rental Income Relief (RPRIR) was introduced by. It is an income tax relief at the standard rate of income tax for individual landlords of rented residential property. The purpose of this relief is to provide an incentive for landlords, specifically targeted at attracting and retaining small-scale landlords in the private sector.
The relief is as follows:
- €3,000 in the tax year 2024;
- €4,000 in the tax year 2025;
- €5,000 in the tax year 2026 and
- €5,000 in the tax year 2027.
The RPRIR is scheduled to sunset at the end of 2027. The Programme for Government commits to "continue the landlord tax credit".
As the Deputy will also appreciate, decisions regarding taxation measures are made in the context of the annual Budget and Finance Bill processes, at the appropriate time, having regard to the sound management of the public finances and the impact any proposed changes would have on the wider housing market.
In relation to the residential rental market more generally, the taxation of rental income was considered by my Department as part of the 2022 Tax Strategy Group process. (Further details set out in chapter 7 of the "Property-Related Tax Issues Tax Strategy Group – 22/04 July 2022" paper, available at the following link: assets.gov.ie/static/documents/tsg-22-04-property-related-tax-issues-4b78c888-4c5a-4642-9f8b-5a28c181ee1a.pdf).
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