SF calls for third band of tax to replace Household Charge
Sinn Féin has renewed its call for the Household Charge to be scrapped.
It comes as the Cabinet meets to discuss the compliance rate with the €100 charge.
Party President Gerry Adams has said it should be replaced by a third rate of income tax.
Mr Adams said: "We have a bill going forward that would repeal this Household Charge.
"The alternative to it, as we have been consistently advancing, is to bring in a third band of tax for those over €100,000 and that would bring in €410m."
The Household Charge debacle topped the agenda at this morning's Cabinet meeting where Government Ministers have tried to piece together where it all went wrong.
As of Saturday's deadline, just over 805,000 people, or less then half of those liable to pay the €100 tax, had actually paid.
Questions are now being raised as to what will happen to local authority services, if the €160m collection target is not reached.
