Property tax to be taken from PAYE workers first

PAYE homeowners who refuse to pay the property tax will be the first to have money deducted from their pay packets from July, the head of Revenue has said.

Josephine Feehily also revealed local authorities will be entitled to raise the tax by 2015 — despite the fact that homeowners must retain the same property value for over three years.

By yesterday, 638,000, or an estimated 43%, of homeowners had registered to pay the tax. Ms Feehily told the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC) an analysis of payments would be begin by the end of May.