Labour hopes for tax date rethink

Homeowners should be able to pay the property tax by credit card in 2014 — and not have to do so later this month — without any need to change the law, according to the Labour Party.

The junior coalition party is holding out hope that the Revenue Commissioners will agree to changes when their chairwoman, Josephine Feehily, appears before the Oireachtas finance committee tomorrow

If not, the tánaiste will consider raising it again at next week’s Cabinet meeting, meaning coalition tensions over the issue could run into a third week.