inherited a bungalow years ago, living abroad & have only just heard of NPPR.

Hi there,

My father inherited a bungalow in the country of Longford a good couple of years ago and we have only just heared about NPPR now and we live in England. This random tax that doesn't give you any correspondence and has a huge interest rate.

Assuming we can't feign ignorance, what is the thing that people like those in my situation can do?

It would be greatly appreciated if I can get any replies.

James.

This table tells you much you may owe at this stage.
https://www.nppr.ie/default.aspx

How did you find out about the NPPR?

In August of this year we had a letter which our family member only just shown us now but it did mention about nppr but did not exclusively say we owed it. They just wanted our address of the UK as there is no nssp (or similar) number on file.

Unless your house is not fit for habitation there is a liability since 2009 and with penalties the liability would be €3,920.00 as of the 31/12/2013 for Nppr and there would be a further penalty for Jan 2014 so you are currently slightly over €4,000.00.
This is the link for NPPR https://www.nppr.ie/faq.aspx#fk5

You probably have a liability for the Household charge which would now amount to €200.00.
This is a link to information on the Household Charge https://www.householdcharge.ie/

You will also have a Local Property Tax liability which depends on the value of your house.
This is a Revenue link to information on the LPT. http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/lpt/

If your house is an unfinished estate you might get relief on some of the above taxes
Hope this helps but it will not make for pleasant reading

Can you tell me if there is any site that regular keeps a hold of that kind of information for the future? I only just have found out about this LPT too. It seems Ireland is trying to copy off some of the UKs taxes but keep flipping it around.

Not websites that say 'may or may not' but facts about what the finances involving taxes and the likes in Ireland.

Cheers,

I am not sure of a website that will cover future charges but you would get a fair idea of what is happening from checking the RTE news site for a couple of mins every day. https://www.google.ie/#q=rte+news&safe=off.

By the way water charges are also on the way

To be honest, this site is a good source as well as people will always discuss new taxes here early on!