Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Proposed Changes to Local Property Tax: Discussion
Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
We move to a Green Party slot which I am going to take. When property tax was introduced, along with the Local Government Reform Act 2014, county councils were split up into municipal districts, or that was my experience in County Wicklow anyway. There was often conversation in council chambers about how there has been more money spent in one district than in another and that it is easy to estimate because one can work out the spend per head in each district. However, a question was raised about whether we could work out what the collection rate and value of the property tax raised per district is. I made inquiries to the Department at that time and was told that was not possible to do. Is that now possible? Can Revenue or the Department of Finance work out the property tax raised per municipal district?
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