Combine harvester owner caught in tax row

The plight of a farmer who could not supply invoices for combine harvesters he bought in 1977, when trying to tax them, has been raised by Independent Tipperary South TD Mattie McGrath.

In the Dáil, he said the 70-year-old man has been told to back-tax the harvesters to 1977, which will cost thousands.

He was unable to supply invoices which the motor tax office insisted were needed — along with photographs of the front, rear and both sides of the machines, and identification of the chassis number by photograph.