26,000 tax letters sent to wrong addresses

More than 26,000 property tax demands have been returned because the addressee is “not known at this address”.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan said a number of factors were involved in the mis-mail which saw so many local property tax (LPT) demands returned unopened.

“I am advised that there are approximately 26,000 such letters, of which some 9,000 have already been reissued, and work on the others is ongoing. Several properties have the same non-unique address, which is not unusual in rural areas,” he said.