22/12/2011

Property Tax To Be Reviewed

The Government is to re-examine Property Tax in an effort to create a "more progressive and fairer" system as early as 2013, according to the Department of the Environment.

It is believed the move is in response to a number of TDs banding together to reject the interim flat rate €100 Household Charge, which homeowners will have to pay from next year.

Minister Phil Hogan has said the new proposals would be more progressive than a flat tax accross the board.

The committee is expected to report back to the Government in late February or early March.

A spokesperson for the Minister said that the flat rate household charge was always meant to be an interim measure.

The spokesperson said that the working group would begin examining how such a system could be drawn up.

(DW)

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