Cuffe suggests home tax up to €600

GREEN Minister Ciaran Cuffe has suggested the introduction of a “domestic charge” on houses of between €200 and €600 a year.

The Minister of State with special responsibility for Sustainable Transport, Planning and Heritage said the Government faced a “huge challenge” in trying to find another €3bn of cuts in the December Budget.

“An additional increase in income tax on working families would be hugely challenging, and perhaps we should instead be considering some kind of domestic charge, as we had prior to the ‘give-away’ budget of 1977,” he said.