IT will be "business as usual" for collecting Residential Property Tax, including back tax owed, for the foreseeable future, the Revenue Commissioners have said.
A spokesman said that all tax and back tax up to the abolition date of next April 5th would be collected. After next April, he said, it would be up to the Government to decide whether tax still owed would be collected, but he fully expected that it would. Any other decision would allow those who had not paid it up to now to escape paying.
The estimated total return on the tax for this calendar year is £13.7 million, compared to £11.9 million last year.
He warned that people selling houses at a price above the current £101,000 RPT threshold would continue to be required to produce an RPT tax clearance certificate to show they had paid the tax.
The Revenue Commissioners' guidelines on RPT say. "If you do not produce an RPT tax clearance certificate, the purchaser is obliged to deduct from the sales proceeds the relevant RPT tax for the previous five years or for the number of years you have owned the property if this is less.