Comment John Walsh: Increasing property tax could do a lot more for the state’s coffers than a wealth levyPeople can move assets to other jurisdictions to avoid a wealth tax, a problem that would not be there with a revised property tax
Up to 350,000 households face penalty for not submitting property tax valuationThe Revenue Commissioners have encountered a higher-than-expected level of non-compliance with the requirement in recent months
Ian Guider: Kicking the pensions can down the road won’t pay offThe short-term strategy of either avoiding or opposing changes to the pension age will leave citizens and the economy short of hundreds of billions of euro
Revenue to be given powers to collect data on vacant homesHomeowners will have to detail any empty houses they own when making their tax returns in November
Michael Brennan: The timing of the property tax hike is a bid to limit any political falloutThe coalition is risking a backlash in overhauling the existing tax regime as the pandemic is still hurting households and house prices are rising
Six key takeaways from the property tax overhaulHomeowners will have to assess how much the value of their property has risen since 2013, the last time this controversial tax was overhauled