Property tax won’t make any dent in our debt

Two years ago the current Dáil/Government were elected. Their mandate was to sort out the country’s problems. This did not include imposing a property tax.

They have no mandate from the people to introduce this tax and the way they propose to collect it by threatening people is nothing short of extortion. ‘Pay up or else you are breaking the law. You are a tax dodger. You will not get a tax clearance cert. You will get a bad credit rating’. This kind of stuff can be expected from Fianna Gael but the Labour party should be ashamed of themselves.

Consider what it will cost to collect this tax, coupled with all the division and upheaval it will cause, just to collect approx half a billion a year — all this for something that will make no dint on the financial problems facing this country.