Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 1 October 2013
187. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the amount of property tax that has been raised this year and the anticipated amount to be raised in a full year, broken down by electoral constituency and by local authority. [40464/13]
View answerI am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that compliance data for Local Property Tax (LPT) are only available broken down by city and county councils nationally and the most up to date figures available are published on the Revenue website at http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/lpt/lpt-preliminary-data.pdf. More up-to-date data will be published in due course.
The Commissioners further advise it is not possible to state at this point the precise amount of LPT which is expected to be collected for 2013 or 2014 for each local authority. There are a numbers of factors which could affect that figure, including the continuation of the very strong level of voluntary compliance that was achieved in 2013, the impact of Revenue’s national compliance programme to follow-up on those liable persons who have failed to meet their LPT obligations for 2013 and the on-going level of deferrals of LPT. However, since the LPT charge for 2013 was for a half year, a reasonable estimate at this stage in respect of 2014 would be to double the published figures for each local authority.
