Kildare homeowners get letters about next year's property tax

The Revenue Commissioners has begun writing to almost one million residential property owners about payment of the 2016 Local Property Tax.

There's been 97 percent compliance for LPT since 2013 and 68,000 households in Kildare are liable for the tax.

The yield nationally from property tax to the end of September this year is 372 million euro, with an additional 39 million in LPT for this year collected in late 2014.

Fianna Fail has called for homeowners paying management fees to be able to off-set them against their property tax.

Fianna Fail Spokesperson on Public Expenditure and Reform Sean Fleming said thousands of people who live in apartments or managed estates right across the country are paying a large management fees every year.