Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 21 June 2016
228. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding collected from the property tax charges in County Kerry in 2015; the amount of this funding provided to the local authority in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16723/16]
View answerI assume the Question refers to the Local Property Tax (LPT). LPT is collected and administered by the Revenue Commissioners and is remitted to the Central Fund. The Revenue Commissioners publish LPT information including details of LPT collected in all local authority areas on their website at the following link: http://www.revenue.ie/en/about/statistics/local-property-tax.html.
Section 157 of the Finance (Local Property Tax Act) 2012 provides that an amount equivalent to the overall amount of LPT collected in a given year shall, beginning in 2014, be paid into the Local Government Fund in the same year by the Minister for Finance.
In accordance with the Government’s decisions in relation to local retention of Local Property Tax, my Department paid €11,659,186 to Kerry County Council in respect of the authority’s LPT allocation for 2015.
The 2015 LPT allocation to Kerry County Council along with details of allocations in each local authority area are published on my Department’s website at the following link: http://www.environ.ie/housing/chargestaxes/local-property-tax/local-property-tax-final-allocations-local-authorities-2015.
