User:rorynoonanDate:11/03/2013Time:08:17:46Edition:11/03/2013Monmonecho110313Page:1Color:
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Councillor: Why should those who don’t comply with property tax get benefits and services from councils?
PEOPLE who pay the property tax should be given priority when accessing council services over those who refuse to Winds: NE at pay, the deputy Lord Mayor of 10-20 mph REGIONAL F Cork has said. L: -3°C Patchy cloud
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Fine Gael councillor Emmet O’Halloran wants the Revenue Commissioners to issue a reference number to those who pay the new tax, which comes into effect this month. He said those who have such a number should be given priority when it comes to getting a pothole fixed, a streetlight repaired or funding for a stairlift under the Disabled Person’s Grant. Cllr O’Halloran said his motion to the council was about standing up for the “silent majority” who obey the law and pay their taxes.
By ALAN HEALY “Those who have paid should be given priority. Why should those who don’t comply benefit from the services that are provided by those who do?” he said. “I don’t like paying the property tax, but it is the law of the land and we can’t pick and choose what laws we abide by.” The deputy Lord Mayor also criticised Socialist Party councillor Mick Barry, who is part of a campaign opposing the property tax. “This is about speaking up for the silent majority; the people who didn’t listen to the megaphone politics of Cllr Mick Barry and obeyed the law.” However, Cllr Barry hit back at Cllr O’Halloran, saying what he was suggesting was possibly illegal and that
huge numbers of ordinary people would be discriminated against. “What Cllr O’Halloran is really at is attempting to pile more pressure on the same ordinary people who are about to be threatened by the Government and the Revenue with having the property tax deducted from their wages or social welfare. “I have no doubt that Cllr O’Halloran and his party’s bully-boy tactics will be decisively rejected in the local elections next year.” Letters will start arriving on doorsteps this week advising householders of the property tax and how they can pay it. Since yesterday, the Revenue Commissioner’s mapping facility on which they have based their tax estimates has gone live on their website, based on ● Continued on page two.
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