Property Taxation Collection

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Questions (417)

Clare Daly

Question:

417. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline on a local authority basis, the number of households which paid the property tax on a monthly basis since November 2012. [20430/13]

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Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government

The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 provides the legislative basis for the Household Charge. Under the Act, an owner of a residential property on the liability date is liable to pay the Household Charge, unless otherwise exempted or entitled to claim a waiver. It is a matter for an owner of a residential property to determine liability and pay the Charge.

The Local Government Management Agency is administering the Household Charge system on a shared service/agency basis for all county and city councils. The table below details the properties registered for the Household Charge, including waiver registrations, by local authority area on 30 November 2012, 31 December 2012, 31 January 2013, 28 February 2013, 31 March 2013 and on 26 April 2013.

I am advised by the Agency that due to relatively low volumes, waiver details are not automatically extracted on a daily basis and the numbers of waivers cannot be retrospectively generated once a date has passed. Therefore, in assembling the table, the figure for the number of waivers for some dates has been estimated by the Agency using the closest available date for which waiver figures are recorded. Given the low number of waivers as a proportion of the total number of properties registered, the impact on the attached table is minimal.

County/City Council	Properties Registered 30/11/2012	Properties Registered 31/12/2012	Properties Registered 31/1/2013	Properties Registered 28/2/2013	Properties Registered 31/3/2013	Properties Registered 26/4/2013
Carlow	12,094	12,431	12,876	13,110	13,267	13,553
Cavan	17,217	17,483	17,891	18,147	18,338	18,631
Clare	33,026	33,570	34,200	34,915	35,461	36,066
Cork City	28,126	28,452	28,751	29,001	29,392	30,047
Cork County	93,154	95,653	97,914	99,224	100,852	102,878
Donegal	36,141	37,292	38,429	39,652	40,221	41,212
Dublin City	138,361	139,856	141,425	142,126	143,744	146,184
Dún Laoghaire -Rathdown	63,380	63,842	64,421	64,674	65,082	65,712
Fingal	62,075	63,068	64,115	64,673	65,720	67,071
Galway City	20,167	21,024	21,279	21,451	21,655	21,941
Galway County	41,731	41,990	43,592	44,695	45,264	46,238
Kerry	43,445	43,909	44,502	45,025	45,422	46,191
Kildare	45,833	46,612	47,522	47,979	48,679	49,728
Kilkenny	21,399	21,927	22,574	22,830	23,079	23,444
Laois	16,433	16,670	17,135	17,415	17,624	17,919
Leitrim	9,168	9,258	9,484	9,618	9,773	9,963
Limerick City	14,134	14,293	14,423	14,580	14,858	15,150
Limerick County	31,743	32,180	32,874	33,235	33,716	34,350
Longford	8,777	9,066	9,344	9,574	9,712	9,917
Louth	25,259	25,776	26,419	26,743	27,091	27,546
Mayo	38,749	39,391	40,837	41,535	41,909	42,356
Meath	38,264	39,239	40,044	40,520	41,074	41,873
Monaghan	13,880	14,023	14,397	14,519	14,710	14,854
North Tipperary	18,075	18,293	18,627	18,836	19,128	19,359
Offaly	15,173	15,736	16,058	16,426	16,680	17,059
Roscommon	16,131	16,593	17,530	18,003	18,228	18,566
Sligo	17,825	18,311	18,988	19,274	19,501	19,855
South Dublin	52,369	53,227	54,000	54,424	55,395	56,809
South Tipperary	20,729	21,027	21,467	21,699	21,951	22,374
Waterford City	10,668	10,774	10,942	11,037	11,163	11,400
Waterford County	16,467	16,677	16,984	17,204	17,446	17,784
Westmeath	20,420	20,670	21,011	21,215	21,433	21,909
Wexford	36,698	37,168	38,079	38,736	39,233	39,891
Wicklow	32,049	32,357	32,834	33,161	33,524	34,029