Household Charge – Useful Information.

Household Charge Registration Forms can be downloaded from here - Forms can be found under the “FAQ’s” tab in the top right corner.

Household Charge Registration Forms can also be picked up from my office –

54a Ranelagh Triangle

Dublin 6.

Alternatively, if you would like to phone or email my office, I can post a form to you. Forms may also be collected from Public Libraries and Civic Offices.

There are a number of situations where waivers or exemptions may be granted:

The exemptions are as follows: 

• Residential properties that are part of the trading stock of a business and have not been sold or been the source of any income since construction,
• Residential property vested in a Minister of the Government or the Health Service Executive,
• Residential property vested in a housing authority, including property where households are purchasing their homes under the Shared Ownership Scheme and where the local authority still retains an ownership stake,
• Voluntary and co-operative housing,
• Residential property to which commercial rates apply,
• Residential property owned by a charity or comprised in a discretionary trust, and
• Residential property where a person has to leave their house due to long-term mental or physical infirmity (e.g. a person that has moved into a nursing home). ”Long term mental or physical infirmity” is defined in the legislation as an infirmity requiring the person to vacate the property in which he/she had been dwelling for a continuous period of more than 12 months and that is certified as such by a registered practitioner.

The waivers from payment of the household charge are as follows: 

• Owners of residential property entitled to mortgage interest supplement
• Owners of residential property located in prescribed unfinished housing estates (see Unfinished Housing Estates section in FAQ for more detail).

Please note that all waiver claims will be validated.  Persons who make false or misleading declarations in making a claim for a waiver will be liable to penalties under the legislation.

A full list of Frequently Asked Questions is available by clicking here.

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