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Couldn't get through to the property tax helpline today? This is why...

Everyone had the same idea.

REVENUE RECEIVED MORE than €1 million in local property tax payments today, and over 30,000 calls to the LPT helpline.

The majority of calls related to property owners who paid their 2014 LPT, but have not either paid or made arrangements to pay this year.

Due to the “unprecedented level of calls”, Revenue said “some callers may not be able to get through” and encouraged them to email lpt@revenue.ie with queries instead.

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Revenue said 130,000 LPT compliance letters were issued last week in respect of unpaid 2013, 2014 and 2015 charges.

The body has urged people to pay online at www.revenue.ie, describing it as the “quickest and easiest way to make arrangements to pay LPT”.

If a property owner chooses the ‘Single Debit Authority’ option, the payment won’t be deducted until 21 March 2015, unless an earlier date is specified.

Alternatively, the property owner can spread the LPT liability over the remainder of the year by selecting deduction at source from their salary or pension, or direct debit from a current account.

If you are still on hold, he’s a musical interlude for you:

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    May 20th 2015, 3:10 PM

    Tesla invented a way to wirelessly transfer electricity. Free electricity. That was years ago. Corporations didn’t like it. No profit for them.

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    Mute Neal Ireland Hello
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    May 20th 2015, 3:46 PM

    Or to put it another way, the concept was financially unviable.

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    May 20th 2015, 6:00 PM

    It also caught fire when being shown to investers if I remember correctly. Not that I was there, just that I heard it somewhere.

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    May 20th 2015, 8:27 PM

    So wardenclyffe http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower was a success it just was denied money because tesla had developed a way of pulling electricity from the ionosphere. Replication of this technology has been tried with haarp http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program good stuff by the great man who was not in it for the money unlike his great rival Thomas Edison.

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    May 21st 2015, 12:46 AM

    When Edison tried to show the world the dangers of electricity (a.c vs his d.c) he did so by publicly electrocuting an elephant using AC current. It was so powerful that the elephant caught fire.. As did the first prisoner on whom it was used as an execution method…
    Nothing to do with his free electricity system though.

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    May 21st 2015, 12:29 AM

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