I propose to take Questions Nos. 141 and 142 together.
I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that compliance data for the Local Property Tax (LPT) are compiled on the basis of the numbers of properties, and are broken down by City and County Councils nationally. The most up to date figures, including the percentage of properties for which exemptions and deferrals were claimed, are published on the Commissioners website at: http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/lpt/lpt-stats-0913.pdf. Work is on-going to refine the LPT Register, and more detailed data will be published in due course.
I am further advised that by the end of September 2013 approximately €200m had been transferred by Revenue to the Exchequer.
The LPT statistics in local authority areas are available by percentage compliance rate rather than by the total number of households, and are as follows:
Local Authority
|
Compliance Rate (Approx.)
|
€ Million LPT Declared*
|
*€ Million LPT Collected
|
Carlow
|
88%
|
1.6
|
1.6
|
Cavan
|
88%
|
2.2
|
1.9
|
Clare
|
90%
|
5.0
|
4.3
|
Cork City
|
90%
|
5.5
|
4.7
|
Cork Co
|
89%
|
20.1
|
17.1
|
Donegal
|
84%
|
5.2
|
4.7
|
Dublin City
|
87%
|
39.9
|
32.4
|
DLR
|
92%
|
26.1
|
21.0
|
Fingal
|
91%
|
18.9
|
14.8
|
Galway City
|
89%
|
4.0
|
3.5
|
Galway Co
|
89%
|
7.1
|
6.3
|
Kerry
|
89%
|
7.0
|
6.2
|
Kildare
|
90%
|
10.7
|
8.6
|
Kilkenny
|
91%
|
3.7
|
3.2
|
Laois
|
89%
|
2.5
|
2.0
|
Leitrim
|
89%
|
1.0
|
0.9
|
Limerick City
|
88%
|
2.2
|
1.8
|
Limerick Co
|
90%
|
5.7
|
4.8
|
Longford
|
88%
|
1.0
|
0.9
|
Louth
|
84%
|
4.7
|
3.8
|
Mayo
|
89%
|
5.1
|
4.6
|
Meath
|
89%
|
8.6
|
6.9
|
Monaghan
|
90%
|
1.9
|
1.7
|
North Tipperary
|
91%
|
2.7
|
2.3
|
Offaly
|
89%
|
2.4
|
2.1
|
Roscommon
|
90%
|
2.0
|
1.8
|
Sligo
|
88%
|
2.6
|
2.3
|
South Dublin
|
90%
|
15.8
|
12.4
|
South Tipperary
|
91%
|
3.2
|
2.8
|
Waterford City
|
89%
|
1.6
|
1.3
|
Waterford Co
|
89%
|
3.0
|
2.5
|
Westmeath
|
90%
|
3.2
|
2.7
|
Wexford
|
90%
|
6.0
|
5.1
|
Wicklow
|
91%
|
8.4
|
6.8
|
Overall
|
90%
|
241.0
|
200.0
|
The statistics on payments by instalment are available by the percentage of LPT collected rather than by the percentage of households, and are as follows:
Payment Type
|
% LPT Collected to Date
|
Card (credit & debit cards)
|
53.1%
|
Direct Debit
|
8.3%
|
Single Debit Authority & Cheque
|
31.1%
|
Deduct at Source
|
0.5%
|
Service Provider
|
7.0%
|
-
|
100.0%
|
Revenue has received in excess of 25,000 claims for an exemption from LPT, which represents 1.6% of all properties returned.