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File: TDs (LtoR) front- Clare Daly, Joe Higgins, Seamus Healy, Joan Collins, Mick Wallace, Richard Boyd Barrett, Luke Flanagan and Thomas Pringle at the launch of www.nohouseholdtax.org Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
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Protests against Household Charge to take place today

Nationwide protests against the Government’s proposed €100 Household Charge are to take place today, with the Campaign Against Household & Water Taxes urging householders to boycott the charge.

NATIONWIDE PROTESTS AGAINST the Government’s proposed €100 Household Charge are to take place today.

The Government has said it hopes to raise €160 million in revenue for the State by applying the charge to homeowners –  but the plans have been met with considerable opposition.

At the beginning of this month fewer than 70,000 households had paid the charge - less than 5 per cent of those expected to do so.

The Campaign Against Household & Water Taxes (CAHWT) has urged homeowners not to pay the charge, and has directed citizens to their website to read details concerning times and locations of the protests.

SIPTU calls for suspension of ‘unfair’ household charge>

In pictures: TDs take to the streets to urge boycott of household charge>

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