All homeowners will see their local property tax (LPT) bills increase from 2021, as Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe seeks to increase the amount raised from the tax.

In the past few weeks we have seen both the threat, and then the deferral, of two taxes. Though very different in appearance, were either primarily designed to raise money?

And there won’t be transfers from richer to poorer areas

The Government is “treating the public like children” and deferred the review of the Local Property Tax (LPT) for naked electoral reasons, Fianna Fáil says.

The Attorney General expressed serious concerns about the Government’s decision to delay a review of the local property tax (LPT), a highly confidential Cabinet memorandum reveals.

The official campaign to highlight the issues, the latent possibilities, around the idea of directly-elected mayors for Cork, Limerick, and Waterford begins today.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe’s decision to defer valuation by a year, to November 2020, has been branded ‘electioneering’ by the opposition, writes Daniel McConnell

As highlighted by your report (“Up to 80,000 homes exempt from property tax until 2021”, Irish Examiner, April 6), Fine Gael’s attitude to taxation displays utter indifference to fairness, and its failure to address the anomalies that the local property tax (LPT) has thrown up is a disgrace and may even be discriminatory.

Property tax increases will be delayed until 2021 and will be “modest” after a decision by the government to defer decisions on the levy.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has insisted that the property tax is "here to stay" and any rises will be affordable and modest when decided on in a year's time.

More than 20 families have been forced to pay local property tax (LPT) for the past five years due to an administrative oversight which should have excluded them because they live in an unfinished estate.

The grand hypocrisy of the so-called hard left in Ireland was exposed this week, suggests Daniel McConnell.

Road repairs, grass-cutting, and other services are not being delivered to a lot of people in Co Cork as the local authority is starved of money due to the Government taking 20% of the local property tax (LPT).

Bringing homes built since 2013 under the Local Property Tax (LPT) will raise more than €10m a year in the Dublin area alone, TDs have been told.

Homeowners are likely to see increases to their local property tax (LPT) bills after next year, but Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe says they will be “affordable”.

Homeowners will be spared massive increases in their local property tax (LPT) bills after 2019 under plans being devised by the Government.

People could face a much larger bill after 2019.

Will the real Leo Varadkar please stand up? Or at least, will he decide who he is when he gets up early in the morning?

Residents in Cork City will see no change in their property tax payments next year.

Homeowners in Co Cork will not have to pay increased Local Property Tax (LPT) next year after the majority of councillors voted to maintain the status quo.

In the first half of 2017, the number of people seeking to defer payment of their local property tax doubled.

Private housing estates should pay 35% less local property tax (LPT), because they do not receive the same services as estates looked after by local authorities.

As part of their successful election campaign in 1977, Fianna Fáil promised to abolish the rates levied on households. As a majority government, they did so. Household rates had funded local government services, inclusive of mains water and refuse collection, since the foundation of the State.

Revenue was justified in extending the original contract to outsource call centre services in support of the local property tax (LPT), despite objections by one of the largest civil service unions, an arbitration board has ruled.

Householders living in Co Cork will pay an extra 5% on their Local Property Tax (LTP) bill next year.

A majority of councillors in Kerry have voted to retain property tax rates at current levels, and not to adjust the basic rates, after being told there is no point in any modest increase.

The chairman of the Revenue Commission has revealed that it uses Google Maps to help establish the value of houses for the purposes of calculating the Local Property Tax (LPT).

The Revenue Commissioners has issued a warning amid concerns of a possible local property tax (LPT) phone call scam targeting homeowners in Cork City.

Revenue took in more than €1m in local property tax (LPT) payments in a single day after issuing 130,000 compliance letters to homeowners.

That the coalition is in disarray and heading for meltdown is no longer in dispute.

Cork’s city councillors will meet tonight to debate a possible reduction in the local property tax rate amid stark warnings that a full 15% cut would cost €1.7m and hit services.

The property tax is being exploited ruthlessly by politicians — irrespective of the cost to any principles they may claim to possess, writes Michael Clifford

The deadline for submissions from the public over a reduction in the Local Property Tax (LPT) must be extended say some Cork county councillors.

Have we now become a State that feeds on the many for the benefit of the few?

The deadline for the payment of property tax and outstanding household charges has been extended until Wednesday, following a surge of calls to the Revenue helpline and online payment system.

Revenue have announced they are extending the local property tax deadline by a number of hours due to the high volume of last-minute queries.

If you haven’t paid your local property tax or household charge or undervalued your house for the property tax, you have until the end of March to rectify matters.

Many business people and local authority tenants will breathe a sigh of relief after Cork County Council decided not to increase rates or rents next year.

The local government minister has been asked to intervene to ensure cash-strapped local authorities don’t have to pass the cost of their local property tax bills on to council tenants.

Business leaders in Cork have called on the Government to ensure local authorities are properly financed so they don’t have to increase rates.

The Revenue Commissioners say they are working towards "100% compliance" with the Local Property Tax (LPT).