Pandemic Unemployment Payment recipients to be hit with tax bills of up to €1,470 

Sinn Féin Finance Spokesman Pearse Doherty has hit out at the decision, claiming he has never seen anything like it. File Picture.

Sinn Féin has hit out at the Government for "rewinding the clock" to tax those who received the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP).

People will now be faced with bills of up to €1,470 after it was decided to retrospectively tax the support which was introduced in March, Sinn Féin's finance spokesman Pearse Doherty has said.