McDonald will pay property tax she opposes

Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald has admitted she has decided to pay the controversial property tax — despite asking families to oppose the new levy.

She made the disclosure ahead of today’s Revenue deadline for registering returns for the Local Property Tax (LPT).

The Dublin TD admitted: “We’re not instructing people to do anything one way or the other. We will, as a family, be paying it for the simple reason that if we don’t pay it, it will be taken from us.”