FG faces revolt over property tax plan

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is facing a growing revolt within Fine Gael over the Coalition’s flagship property tax initiative.

Government TDs in Dublin are growing increasingly jittery over the impact the charge, set to be introduced in July, will have, with one senior Fine Gael figure branding it “unfair and unreasonable”.

The Government backlash began to intensify as Social Protection Minister Joan Burton outlined plans to take the tax at source from welfare payments.