Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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261. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount collected in commercial rate receipts by each individual local authority in 2015 and in 2016. [23548/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation under the Valuation Act 2001. The levying and collection of rates are matters for each individual local authority. Rates income data are published by local authorities in their Annual Financial Statements, which are published as a matter of course on local authority websites. 2014 is the latest year for which audited local authority Annual Financial Statement data are available.

Work on the auditing of local authority Annual Financial Statements for 2015 by the Local Government Audit Service is ongoing.