Over 500,000 have still not paid property tax

More than 500,000 householders have still not settled their property tax returns, despite the looming deadline tomorrow.

The Revenue Commissioners had received 1.1m completed payments from a total of 1.66m residential property owners by last Friday evening, leaving 560,000 tax bills still unpaid.

Revenue chiefs have warned that people who fail to respond to tax notices by tomorrow’s cut-off point will have the amount set out in estimates sent to their homes collected by other measures, such as mandatory deduction from their salaries.