Vacant Homes

Revenue to ask councils to identify empty homes liable for tax

The tax authority will no longer confine its database to self-declared vacant homeowners

Revenue is putting together a database of potentially vacant homes which will not be confined to the 57,000 people who have already declared their ownership of a vacant property

Local councils will be asked to identify homeowners liable for the new vacant home tax as Revenue begins to implement the charges in the coming months.

The tax authority is putting together a database of potentially vacant homes which will not be confined to the 57,000 people who have already declared their ownership of a vacant property.

A spokesman for Revenue said that it would be accessing data from other government agencies such as local ...