Whitaker Institute member Dr Gerard Turley, of the Performance Management cluster, has written a new piece for RTÉ Brainstorm. The article looks at 8 actions that could be taken to make the local property tax more acceptable to tax payers.
Analysis: Given the unpopular nature of property tax with voters and politicians in Ireland and worldwide, there are a number of straightforward measures that would make LPT more acceptable to Irish taxpayers.
With the revaluation of properties due on the 1st November, there are a number of measures that Revenue and the authorities could take that will improve the integrity and legitimacy of the Local Property Tax (LPT).
Informed by the literature on the political economy of property tax reform we know what matters and what works, subject to the usual country-specific circumstances.
Given the unpopular nature of property tax with voters and politicians in Ireland and worldwide, here are eight relatively straightforward actions that would make the local property tax system in Ireland more acceptable to taxpayers. Continue reading…
