Several of my colleagues got their payslips today to find a deduction of €100 marked as 'Property Tax'. Even better, the colleagues I know best of this group have never actually purchased a property.
I am surprised there is no mention of similar situations that I can find. I find it very unsettling that a supposedly powerful authority like the Revenue seems unable to identify people who have never bought a property when instructing these deductions.
There is some speculation in the workplace that this may be a mistake relating to properties people may have rented in the past. That is no sort of valid excuse for this-would the revenue be so inept and greedy as to draw a conclusion that just because someone lived at an address for a time that they owned it?
Has anyone heard of similar goings on? I suppose there is an outside chance that the payroll company has made the error of their own accord, but I would imagine a deduction like this would only be do upon receipt of specific instruction.
I am surprised there is no mention of similar situations that I can find. I find it very unsettling that a supposedly powerful authority like the Revenue seems unable to identify people who have never bought a property when instructing these deductions.
There is some speculation in the workplace that this may be a mistake relating to properties people may have rented in the past. That is no sort of valid excuse for this-would the revenue be so inept and greedy as to draw a conclusion that just because someone lived at an address for a time that they owned it?
Has anyone heard of similar goings on? I suppose there is an outside chance that the payroll company has made the error of their own accord, but I would imagine a deduction like this would only be do upon receipt of specific instruction.