{"id":331555,"date":"2026-03-06T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331555\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:25:10","slug":"households-in-ireland-pay-most-of-the-vat-on-energy-bills-despite-using-less-than-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331555\/","title":{"rendered":"Households in Ireland pay most of the Vat\u00a0on energy bills despite using less than industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nDomestic users paid \u20ac4bn of \u20ac5bn collected since 2015\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Householders face higher Vat rates on their energy bills. Photo: Alamy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2189146d-90f1-445c-9e87-c9fc6faf2ca6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Householders face higher Vat rates on their energy bills. Photo: Alamy<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Government has been accused of letting industrial energy users off the hook after it emerged that the lion\u2019s share of Vat on electricity and gas bills is paid by households.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This is despite the fact that large users, such as data centres, draw down far more energy than consumers, according to data obtained by Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Pa Daly in D\u00e1il replies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Domestic users paid \u20ac4bn of \u20ac5bn collected since 2015 Householders face higher Vat rates on their energy bills.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3361,15049,2244,895,3775,61,60,3362,43,70,3415,5066],"class_list":["post-331555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-charlie-weston","tag-dail-eireann","tag-eu","tag-fianna-fail","tag-fine-gael","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-money-experts","tag-news","tag-simon-harris","tag-sinn-fein","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}