How to pay the household charge
The deadline for payment is next Saturday, March 31st.
Register online at householdcharge.ieand pay by credit or debit card. The direct debit option, which allowed people to pay in four equal instalments of €25, was only available until March 1st.
Registration forms may be downloaded from householdcharge.ieand are also available from local authorities, libraries, Citizen Information Centres or by phoning a lo-call number, 1890 357357. These may be filled out and posted.
Forms are also available in post offices, but An Post cannot accept the payment directly. It must still be paid by a €100 cheque, bank draft or postal order payable to “Household Charge”, posted to: Household Charge, PO Box 12168, Dublin 1.
What information does the householdcharge.iewebsite seek when you register and set up an account?
Name and email address, which are mandatory.
Your phone number and mobile phone number – these can be left unfilled if the user ticks a box stating he/she does not want to receive text messages.
Your personal public service number. You may still pay the charge online even if you do not have a PPS number, by checking a box that allows you to bypass that field.
The address of property associated with the account and the correspondence address.
What type of piped water supply connection the property has.
Whether the property is a house, apartment or bedsit.
The site allows a one-off payment of the €100. The direct debit option is now closed.
Payment information such as credit card number is not stored by the householdcharge.iesite, but is processed by a third party, Realex Payments.
The site is gathering information to process the household charge and for the “preparation and maintenance of a database of residential property in the State”.
It specifically states that the data provided “may also be used in future years to notify property owners of potential liability for household charges”.