Head of Revenue backs property tax

The head of the Revenue Commissioners has def-ended the property tax and declared that it is fair and equitable for citizens as the scope of charges is wide.

Revenue chairwoman Josephine Feehily also argued that the system of personal taxation in Ireland is “one of the most progressive in the world”.

Speaking at the MacGill summer school in Donegal, she said that the top 22% of tax cases pay 82% of the income tax and that consumption taxes were fairer than income taxes because people had choices about how to spend their money.