Who got the LPT letter?

Leo said:
Paid by credit card last time, haven't received a letter this time.
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Leo are you paying by Credit card this time, can you see if there is an option to pay by credit card, but not immediately, but by An Post or paypal or the other thing, omni something next year please when you go into the website ?
 
sahd said:
Payment by installment at a service provider is available - but not to owners of multiple properties.
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So they give one million and one options on payments, but that particular option is denied to multiple property owners. Why on earth would that be? How do you know this it is on the revenue website. I ask, because Mandelbrot was sure it was an option.
 
Bronte said:
Leo are you paying by Credit card this time, can you see if there is an option to pay by credit card, but not immediately, but by An Post or paypal or the other thing, omni something next year please when you go into the website ?
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Haven't decided yet, I'm really only starting to look at the options and the overall cost including fees.

Other have covered it, but yes, if you choose to use the Payment Services Provider option, you can use your cards to pay. If you choose weekly or monthly payments, you can even use different PSPs, and choose card or cash payment for each payment. See here for the Revenue FAQ.
 
Paid last year in single DD payment via online registration. Got no letter then or now. No notification of receipt or email confirmation, just took the money without a by or leave. Death and taxes, only certainties in life each with similar manners.
 
Got the letter and have paid it already by debit card. I was intrigued by the fact that you can change the payment amount when doing so.

Saw from AAM that I wasn't the only one to notice it but wasn't too comfortable with the warning message.

Rang Revenue and after a couple of repeats of their song of the day got through to them. Asked them about it and they were mystified, they didn't know about it.

Asked whether the warning about remainder due by mid-March was correct and after some consultation among themselves they decided that it could not be. So I suggested they needed to clarify that process with some urgency and paid in full as I was not keen to run the risk
 
sahd said:
Payment by installment at a service provider is available - but not to owners of multiple properties.
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Bronte said:
So they give one million and one options on payments, but that particular option is denied to multiple property owners. Why on earth would that be?
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I suspect the reason is that the service provider option is there mainly to assist those who don't have a bank account and/or are paid weekly / receiving benefits weekly. I would ask you the reverse question - why would an owner of multiple properties (I'm going to make a leap here and assume there'll be a bank account available to this person) want to pay via an expensive service provider (Omnivend is 4%, An Post will be at least €12 across the year - probably more as I suspect you'll have to lodge amounts per property rather than combined)? This will involve 12 or 52 visits to the service provider to lodge cash. You'll have to keep all of the service provider receipts (12 or 52) to keep on top of what you've paid. Why would this be an attractive option?
 
Woodie said:
Paid last year in single DD payment via online registration. Got no letter then or now. No notification of receipt or email confirmation, just took the money without a by or leave. Death and taxes, only certainties in life each with similar manners.
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Similar here. Paid single payment online by debit card earlier in the year and again last week. No letter in advance either time, no subsequent acknowledgement. Other than some sort of house registration number appeared on the online form this time round I wouldn't have a clue if Revenue had acknowledged my existence as a property owner, as opposed to just taking my cash.
 
Paid by card tonight

I got the letter. Just after paying it by card. One less thing to worry about.
 
I paid for a few different(elderly) people online last time as a once off payment with Visa Debit. Some of them got the letter this time - others didn't. I, myself got an email.
 
orka said:
I suspect the reason is that the service provider option is there mainly to assist those who don't have a bank account and/or are paid weekly / receiving benefits weekly. I would ask you the reverse question - Why would this be an attractive option?
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Ok - that makes sense that this option is for people without bank accounts, and I cannot see any landlord wanting to pay it weekly. But it is confusing as there are so many different rules.
 
Armada said:
. I, myself got an email.
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That's odd, I didn't get an email (nor a letter). And I know they have my email as this time it was on the system when I submitted last week. Plus I see in my files from the 'acknowledgment' I have earlier this year that they have my email address.
 
This may have been mentioned before but... I did the LPT online for somebody last week. They got a letter and a form. I didn't bother reading the letter so can't comment on that. They previously paid in one go but wanted to change to regular monthly DD. The form had the house number in small print and the PIN in huge print. The PPSN is also needed to log in. The form could have been clearer in terms of the information needed to log in online in my opinion. Anyway I logged in and chose regular DD. The DD form came up and asked "how much do you want to pay" and prefilled this field with the full annual amount of the tax. I wasn't sure if - since it was a regular monthly DD - I was supposed to divide this by 12 to give the monthly amount. The online help did not clarify. I just left the full amount and presumed that they would charge the pro rate monthly amount. This specific part of the online system was confusing in my opinion.
 

I think they've created a headache for themselves here, and more people will be caught out into next year. If you wait until into the new year and set up a monthly DD, depending on when, there may only be 11 payments or fewer during the year. They state in the FAQ that you are supposed to work out how many payments there will be, and then what each payment should be. That's exactly the kind of calculation that computers are very good at, and humans get wrong on occasion.
 
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